Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Mon, 27 May 2002 15:43:24 +0200


On Monday 27 May 2002 16:31, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 12:12, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > If I try to do ~50 simultanous reads from disk, it's no problem as long
> > as the data is being read from the nic with the same speed as it's being
> > read from disk. The server apps are running via inetd (testing), and have
> > 2MB of buffer each. (read 2MB from disk, write 2MB to NIC).
> >
> > The server chrashes within minutes. The same problem occurs when using
> > Tux
>
> How much physical memory and is your app using sendfile ?

I have 1gig with highmem disabled, ergo 900MB.

My app is just doing read() write(), but as the problem occurs similarly with
Tux (which uses sendfile()), it shouldn't really matter

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

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