Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> Well I don't have any such problems here. I wrote this script
> from your instructions. I don't know if you REALLY wanted all
> the file content to go out to the screen, but I wrote it explicitly.

[snip]

> Script started on Thu Aug  2 16:50:47 2001
> # ps -laxw | grep pause
>    140     0    16     1  -1 -20    712    40 pause       S < ?   0:00 (bdflush) te
>      0     0  7433     1   9   0 321056 137808 pause       S    1  0:02 /tmp/try
>      0     0  7631  7626  19   0    844   240             R   p0  0:00 grep pause
> # cat /proc/meminfo
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  328048640 326234112  1814528        0  4255744 173219840
> Swap: 1069268992 189992960 879276032
                             ^^^^^^^^^
You still have almost 1GB of swap left.  I mean use all the memory in your
box, RAM + swap.

As I said, I expect degraded performance but not a complete meltdown.

-jwb