death by swapping in 2.1.103
Peter Amstutz (amstpi@freenet.tlh.fl.us)
Sat, 30 May 1998 23:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
I recall reading about this problem in earlier kernels - I was minding my
own business, (in X, reading email) when the system started swapping so
heavily to the point where the mouse basically stopped moving (well,
fifteen to twenty seconds between updates, and not responding to the
keyboard when I tried to kill X) - I basically had to hit the reset button
to get the system back. This is a 2.1.103 SMP system with 64MB RAM and 32
MB swap (in two 16 MB swap files /swap0 and /swap1). I was running X,
Netscape, rc5des, and a few Xterms - not a heavy system load, and never
produced any problems with 2.0.33.
Peter Amstutz
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