Re: My memory is rusty
Ben Kosse (bkosse@thecreek.com)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:21:21 -0700
>> Somewhere in the 2.1.xx series (maybe 2.1.4x, but I'm not sure) of
>> Linux kernels I noticed that rapid rusting was setting in. After
>> using the system for a time, which could be less than an hour, the
>> performance would become very sluggish due to swapping and only
>> rebooting seems to restore system performance.
>Bill is right, or we are both wrong :) I noticed this too in 2.1.4x ..
>After a few days of uptime with no intensive processes running, it felt
>really sluggish due to swapping. Actually, I do remember once that I >left the kernel idling on one of the boxen (dx4, 12mb i think), came to >have a look in the morning, and this was the behaviour I encountered.
Actually, I've experienced this on 2.0.33 and 2.0.31 however the problem was
actually a runaway Apache program (for some reason, it elected to spawn
somewhere around 100-200 copies of httpd running. The funny thing was *NO
ONE* could connect to the system (it was pure standalone) and the number of
servers was set at 2/10.
To this day, I have never seen it repeat this very odd behavior, but it
could be a possibility that something went haywire.
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