Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:31:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | 2.1.95 stressed and surviving (so far) |
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It took a while but it finally happened. Had to place the backup machine running 2.1.95 into service as an emergency backup for a remote system. One of its UUCP clients dumped his weekly listserv output. Many messages, each with many RCPT TO:'s. Anyhow, I notice the disk drive go about 100% active while I was not logged on and decided to have a look.
At the console, I can type a command and it takes about 10 seconds per character to echo back. Just did an uptime and it is showing a load of about 30. It has not crashed but it is really pounding the disk.
Free is reporting: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 14640 13556 1084 5764 48 3648 -/+ buffers/cache: 9420 5220 Swap: 35836 21940 13896
Looks like I am getting tight on swap.
This would crash this box running 2.0.29 but I suspect that was more to do with CPU heating than the kernel. I have not had a Sig 11 fault since I changed the fan and added heatsink compound. It is taking a licking and so far it has kept on ticking.
George Bonser
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