2.1.91pre2 death by swapping.

Myrdraal (myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 03:45:44 -0500

Hi,
Well, shortly after I wrote my previous message, 2.1.91pre2 died a nasty
death. This system has 64mb RAM and was lightly loaded, the main thing
it was doing was playing a MOD. It started to swap out of the blue, the
mod started skipping more and more, and eventually stopped playing
entiredly while the machine thrashed. It continued thrashing for 10-15
minutes, every program totally stopped while this was happening. Using
the magic sysrq show memory option, I could see that the free pages
number was fluctuating between 10200 and 10250 or so. Eventually I rebooted
back to 2.1.90 with the magic sysrq.
-Myrdraal

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