Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux-2.2.0 bad VM behaviour "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=256k" | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 26 Jan 1999 23:00:13 +0100 |
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In article <4.1.19990126173526.00a60390@mail.helsinki.prihateam.fi>, petri@prihateam.fi (Petri Mattila) writes: > Hi hackers, > I guess there is something wrong with the 2.2.0 vm... when I try this:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=256k
> the system becomes very lazy and after a couple of seconds 'ps amx' shows that > nearly every process has been swapped out. After a couple of minutes > daemons just die or stop with D state. Not very good.
I have similar problems, although 2.2.0(release) seems to be better than 2.2.0pre9. Instead of freezing the machine completely the logins only take a long time - still looks like a brown paper bag bug to me.
-Andi
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