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2.1.91 swapping to death??

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zxmpm11 at student

Mar 30, 1998, 10:11 AM

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2.1.91 swapping to death??

Hi!
It seems, that kswapd is swapping continuously to get its
128k block free, if memory is fragmented.
I saw this after a parallel compile of Wine/gtk+/kernel.
After the compiles finished, kswapd started to swap
(and never stopped, even after half an hour - btw.
free reports more than 20 Meg of my 32 as _free_ - system
was totally unloaded at this stage)
Richard.
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thomas at Cuivre

Apr 2, 1998, 5:01 PM

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Re: 2.1.91 swapping to death?? [In reply to]

In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.980330190806.21500B-100000 [at] fphp04>,
Richard Guenther <zxmpm11 [at] student> wrote:
>It seems, that kswapd is swapping continuously to get its
>128k block free, if memory is fragmented.
I still observe insane MM behavior with 2.1.92.
Launching Ť make -j ť on the EGCS source tree
causes lots of swap activity for 1-2 minutes, then
a plain lock-up (no trace, no disk activity, no
response besides console switches).
2.1.92 was compiled by gcc 2.8.1. Core is 32 Mb,
swap is 20 Mb.
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