Re: 2.1.91 swapping to death??

Thomas Quinot (thomas@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG)
3 Apr 1998 00:01:17 GMT

In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.980330190806.21500B-100000@fphp04.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Richard Guenther <zxmpm11@student.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>It seems, that kswapd is swapping continuously to get its
>128k block free, if memory is fragmented.

I still observe insane MM behavior with 2.1.92.
Launching « make -j » on the EGCS source tree
causes lots of swap activity for 1-2 minutes, then
a plain lock-up (no trace, no disk activity, no
response besides console switches).

2.1.92 was compiled by gcc 2.8.1. Core is 32 Mb,
swap is 20 Mb.

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    Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG     <URL:http://Web.FdN.FR/~tquinot/>




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