Messages in this thread | | | From | (Greg Lee) | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:37:22 -1000 | Subject | Re: v2.1.93 dies as v2.1.92 (16MB ram) |
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> Hi! > > > I started X, put top in one window, and tried > > compiling a file in another window. Locked up > > just like 2.1.92, only a little faster. I was > > able to see in the brief few seconds before > > death that the cached memory reported by top > > went down from 4 megs to 2 megs. After normal > > sounding disk activity as the compile started, > > the sound of the disk settled into a grind-grind- > > pause1sec-grind-grind-... rhythm. > > Hmm, try to renice kswapd into normal priority. Also, you might want > to give bdflush realtime priority so you are able to cleanly > unmount. Please let me know if it helps. > > Pavel
I reniced kswapd from -12 to 0. It helped a lot. I got through the compile with no problem. Same conditions as before. I haven't yet gone on to put heavier loads on yet ...
For whatever interest it may have, I've got: K6-233, TXPro motherboard (PCI IDE not correctly initialized), sound modules: sb, opl3fm, uart401, adlib_card (apparently loaded ok), 128MB swap partition, ...
-- Greg, lee@.Hawaii.edu
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