Re: 2.1.91pre2 death by swapping.

Chip Salzenberg (chip@atlantic.net)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:08:26 -0500


According to Luca Lizzeri:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 03:45:44AM -0500, Myrdraal wrote:
> > 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 [...]
>
> It happened to me, while untar-ing a big file (egcs), repeatably.

Likewise: untarring egcs (45M of content) on a 64M box, swap death.

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