Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > > Started procinfo-.13 on one vt. > > then word2x -f latex apmv11.doc on another. > > 20Mb ram 40Mb swap. > > swap climbed to 32Mb, free to ~13Mb, used dropped to ~4Mb > > swap checks in but doesn't check out. Ctrl C killed the prog and > > everything gradually recovered gracefully. > > Stock 2.1.92 + Rik's small vmscan.c patch for lo mem machines + > > I'm currently using 2.1.92 without any 'personal refinements' > and it's running without problems. > How's 2.1.92 _without_ my patch? (maybe swap_tick() is > starting kswapd too often with my patch enabled???)
OK, patch removed. Used and swap went to the limit. I think it is just a
buggy app. When somebody sends me a smaller .doc file, I'll try it
again. Don't have word myself.
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Garst
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