Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 1998 07:15:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: Very bad swap bug -- 2.0, 2.1 at least |
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> > This swap bug that I mentioned a while back is still happening, and this > > time seems to be much worse than before. In this particular case it is > > happening on a medium-loaded web server running 2.0.35. It's causing the > > load to go up to 5 or so due to the disk I/O being so saturated that many > > user processes get blocked. > > It's certainly not a fix for a problem, but if you are using IDE, you > might want to try unmasking interrupts on your swap drive.
Erm...it's on an UltraWide SCSI drive. :)
Simon-
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