Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load

From: Roger Luethi
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 12:27:47 EST


On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:26:34 +1000, Jason Lewis wrote:
> I seem to be experiencing some problems with it. boot and load X ok, but
> as soon as I try and do anything interesting in X, like run xchat, or
> apt-get update, the system grings to a halt. the load goes through the
> roof, and the hdd starts grinding away madly.
>
> But I can run my system quite succesfully under 2.4
>
> [...]
>
> Script started on Sun 28 Sep 2003 00:56:41 EST
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> [...]
> 1 8 0 3360 836 6024 0 0 16404 16 3666 2158 1 13 0 86
> 1 11 0 3504 828 5888 0 0 14956 4 6185 3344 0 11 0 89
> 3 9 0 3392 816 6016 0 0 6864 0 3903 2088 0 11 0 89
> 2 13 0 3464 820 5880 0 0 11148 0 3105 1960 0 12 0 87
> 0 12 0 3424 816 6008 0 0 19712 0 5519 3184 0 12 0 87

^^^^
Looks like you don't have swap enabled. Are successful 2.4 runs with or
without swap?

Roger
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