2.1.110 odd swapping

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:56:07 -0400 (EDT)

Attempting to boot my machine with only 4MB of RAM ended up stopping at the
end of the rc.d scripts as soon as init would normally spawn the (10)
consoles. Using ALT+SysRQ+P showed the kernel (2.1.110 SMP) looping in the
following addresses:

c012635c t swap_out
c01263af <- loop (infrequent)
c012644c t do_try_to_free_page

c0108230 T cpu_idle
c0108270 <- loop (frequent)
c0108354 T sys_idle

ALT+SysRQ+M showed 80k-200k free memory and 83kb buffer memory at various
points of time. The free swap space hovered around 30MB of 32MB. After a
few minutes, nothing changed and I finally gave up with the reset button.

Not exactly the best test for real-life behavior, but it should have at
least used more swap to finish booting....

-George

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