Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: swapping under 2.1.12[5-7?] | From | Benny Amorsen <> | Date | 01 Nov 1998 20:06:51 +0100 |
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>>>>> "EW" == Ely Wilson <plexus@ionet.net> writes:
EW> After about an hour of music I notice that the music will stop EW> dead for a moment, sometimes a split second, sometimes for several EW> seconds. Meanwhile there is heavy disk action and then playing EW> resumes.
EW> This appears to me that teh kernel is swapping out LARGE amount EW> sof memory as this is only happening after new songs are loaded EW> after enough songs to fill my physical memory have been played.
Some disks require a small pause once in a while. That may be what you are seeing. It could also be your cron.hourly running.
Try running without swap and see if it still happens.
Benny
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