Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze for unknown reason | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 19:46:48 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I have been monitoring the memory usage constantly with the gnome > memory usage meter and noticed that as swap grows it is never freed > back up. I can kill off most of the large applications, such as
The swap handling in 2.4 is somewhat hosed at the moment.
> If I turn swap off all together or turn it off and back on > periodically to clear the swap before it gets full, I do not seem to > experience the lockups.
That sounds right. I can give you a tiny patch that should fix the lockups and instead it will kill processes out of memory but thats obviously not the actual fix 8)
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