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SubjectRe: Multiple swap partition uglies (fwd)
Hi, dunno if this is related, but Netscape has gone into CPU loops a couple
of times on my 2.0.32 machine. This is after X has stopped, but Netscape
keeps going, and going, and ... There is only 1 swap partition on the
machine, and enough memory to support Netscape looping w/o paging, but I
imagine on a smaller machine it would lead to page thrashing.

Jim

At 07:24 PM 5/26/98 +1000, Paul Wilkins wrote:
>On Tue, 26 May 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
>
>> I seem to remember something relating to early in the 2.0 series
>> (around 2.0.11 IIRR) where a bug was found to exist relating to swap
>> areas with equal priorities, and I don't think it was ever tracked
>> down, but the advice given then was NOT to use swap areas with equal
>> priority...
>
>Hi Riley,
>yep, looks like the problem's still there in 2.0.31.
>
>Seeing as Netscape is where the problem is most evident, is a strace on
>Netscape the best approach to solving the problem? Should be simple to
>write a short program to keep just the last meg of strace output, run
>Netscape, wait for the box to commence its grinding behaviour, then examine
>the strace dump?
>
>Of course, dumping the strace may interact with swapping in
>wierd ways, and conceal the problem.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Cheers
>
>Paul
>
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