Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Mar 1998 11:49:12 +0200 (CEST) | From | "Krzysztof G. Baranowski" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.92-1 is 50% better |
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While testing the million monkey theory, Greg Lee wrote: >I have 16MB ram. With 2.1.91 I could neither compile anything nor >use X windows with one xterm without a swapping frenzy. Now, with >2.1.92-1 I can either compile or use X, but not both. More >specifically, trying "make modules" from an xterm window led to >a 5 minute episode of swapping before my ^C was heard. My 2.1.91 on P166 with 32 MB RAM has swapped my system to death. It happened three times, when I was the only user logged. The first time during KDE compilation, the second time when I was working in X, reading 2 MB PostScript file. Suddenly the machine started swapping system slowed down and then it becomes totally unusable. Mouse didn't work, neither did keyboard. I rebooted with Magic SysRq. The third time was most amazing. I left idle machine - with no users, no large processes, just few standard daemons - for night and went to sleep. When I woke up at 5 AM. the disk was working like mad, swapping all the time. Machine was totaly unusable.
Kris -- Krzysztof G. Baranowski - President of the Harmless Manyacs' Club "Smith & Wesson - The original point and click interface..." http://www.knm.org.pl/ <prezes@manjak.knm.org.pl>
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