Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 1998 20:56:00 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Michael L. Galbraith" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.92(16MB) swap death |
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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 2.1.92 is about as bad as pre-2.1.92-2 on my 16MB system. I > > commented out the "raising capabilites" message in fs/exec.c and > > tried: > > (1) compiling init/main.c -- no problem > > (2) starting X and compiling from an xterm -- no problem > > (3) starting top in another xterm and compiling -- > > cached went down from 5548K to about 1024K > > free stayed about 1024K > > after a minute, screen froze > > 20 minutes later I gave up and hit reset > > > > Is there any point in my going through this exercise? > > This roughly matches my 8Mb box. On 32Mb 2.1.92 feels a bit better but has > the odd disk frenzy, on the 8Mb box its as bad as 2.1.90/91 etc. I tried > booting it on my 4Mb Zenith 386SX20 for a joke. >
80 mb doesn't help much.
On my machine, the buffercache is running at 50% of normal (write) bw. Read is still hovering at 40mb/sec.. write is down from typical 32 to 15 mb/sec. (my hardware is old)
Find / on a 6 gig fs leaves 35mb ram untouched.
-Mike
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