Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:00:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Spirilis <> | Subject | Re: everyone who has VM problems/messages (writable swappage or crash or lockup) |
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> the thing is, i have torture tested the swapping code by using Stephen > Tweedie's nice trick of swapping to ramdisk (the old one...) and doing > random schedules, and have seen zero, nil, nada problems. I have done more > swapping than a normal system would do in 10 years ... but i'm using GCC > 2.7.2.3. > I torture tested my system the immediate reboot afterwards--ran 12 virtual consoles, 6-7 lynx'es (with the nsl-fork), BitchX running 3 times, micq, and a mod which I [was using my modified version of mikmod that supports memory locking] had set to lock all its current and future memory (or'ed the two options together) This is 8MB RAM, btw... used about 1.3 times the RAM in swap After 20 minutes of thrashing, the system stabilized. Further operations invoked the swapdisk, but no more VM problems so far.
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