Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2002 12:03:03 -0400 | From | Johannes Erdfelt <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again |
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On Thu, May 23, 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net> wrote: > I've been here complaining about the 2.4 VM before, and here I am, back again. > > PROBLEM: > ---------------------- > Starting up 30 downloads from a custom HTTP server (or Tux - or Apache - > doesn't matter), file size is 3-6GB, download speed = ~4.5Mbps. After some > time the kernel (a) goes bOOM (out of memory) if not having any swap, or (b) > goes gong swapping out anything it can. > > The custom HTTP server processes each have a static buffer of two megabytes, > no malloc()s, and are written in < 1000 lines of C. > > Theory: The buffer fills up, as the clients can't read as fast as kernel is > reading from disk, and the server goes boom > > thanks for any help
What kernel is this?
JE
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