Re: 2.1.91 swap performance: jerky.

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:20:20 +0200


On Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > not killed (returning segfault) but the machine hang as in the case
> > before. I proved it running `swapoff -a; startx;` and then trying to start
> > emacs. After that I had to reset.
> >
> > I suggest mm hackers to start the kernel with mem=30m or less.
>
> Im running a mix of 4,8,16 and 32Mbyte boxes. On the two I've tested
> (8 and 32Mb) 2.1.91 thrashes continually after a few minutes and then locks
> up.

I tend to agree with the original poster's theory. Running on a 96mb Indy
I don't see these swap attack except when running lmbench's bw_mem.

Ralf

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