On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
> > I'm telling you that's not what happens. When memory pressure
> > gets really high, the kernel takes all the CPU time and the box
> > is completely useless. Maybe the VM sorts itself out but after
> > five minutes of barely responding, I usually just power cycle
> > the damn thing. As I said, this isn't a classic thrash because
> > the swap disks only blip perhaps once every ten seconds!
this is exactly what's happening here. (as I wrote in the 'kswapd eats the
cpu without swap' mail)
the network work's here too, but I can't do anything. I can't even switch
between VT-s
but it's really hard to reproduce.
Bye,
Szabi
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