Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 May 1998 09:19:07 -0700 | From | Jim Wilcoxson <> | Subject | Re: Multiple swap partition uglies (fwd) |
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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 > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ,--- > Paul Wilkins | o o | > Internet Operations Manager ` \_/ ' Linux > TMP Worldwide /\___/\ The Choice of > paulw@tmpw.com.au |_/ . \_| A GNU Generation > http://www.monsterboard.com.au \_/___\_/ >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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