Re: 2.1.94 still locks up hard after a few minutes

Brad Kemp (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:30:58 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> In case there is a fix that you were trying in 2.1.94, I
> I must report that this problem persists in 2.1.94. I can also
> confirm that the problem occurs within about five minutes of
> booting even if I do not start X windows. I hope this
> data point is helpful.
[snip his hardware]

Well it's still okay for me, though where can I tune it so that it swaps a
little more agressivly, I'de like to free up some pages for swap.

My system:
Tyan IIID Dual Pentium MMX/166
64megs ram.
BT-958, S3, Cheap ne2000 clone.

[limelight]~# uname -a
Linux limelight 2.1.94 #7 SMP Wed Apr 8 23:10:32 EDT 1998 i586
[limelight]~# uptime
12:19pm up 12:39, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.02
[limelight]~#

[limelight]/proc# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
bursts.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 13.
I/O at 0x6100 [0x6101].
Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: BusLogic MultiMaster (rev 6).
Fast devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=240.
I/O at 0x6200 [0x6201].
Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Vision 968 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 10.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 64876544 33689600 31186944 7479296 15060992 11288576
Swap: 74022912 0 74022912
MemTotal: 63356 kB
MemFree: 30456 kB
MemShared: 7304 kB
Buffers: 14708 kB
Cached: 11024 kB
SwapTotal: 72288 kB
SwapFree: 72288 kB

[limelight]/proc# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 64876544 33689600 31186944 7479296 15060992 11288576
Swap: 74022912 0 74022912
MemTotal: 63356 kB
MemFree: 30456 kB
MemShared: 7304 kB
Buffers: 14708 kB
Cached: 11024 kB
SwapTotal: 72288 kB
SwapFree: 72288 kB

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