Re: pre91-1 dies under heavy swapping (vmscan)

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@UCSD.Edu)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:03:41 -0800


> Netscape, in particular, just folds up and goes brain-dead under 2.1.90
> and p91 when running on a machine with 40-Meg of memory. On my other x86
> box, with 64-Meg, it seems fine. Originally, I thought it was
> network-related, but after David Miller suggested the vm system,
> observation revealed a brief flicker of drive activity coincident with its
> waking up. - FWIW

There is also an X program called 'procmeter' (or procmeter plus) that
can graph things versus time. For example page faults :) I used that
the other day....

=BenRI

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