Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Fri, 24 May 2002 12:36:32 +0200
On Thursday 23 May 2002 20:12, jlnance@intrex.net wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:11:24PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Does this work if the client and the server are on the same machine? It
> would make reproducing this a lot easier if it only required 1 machine.
I guess it'd work fine with only one machine, as IMO, the problem must be the
kernel not releasing buffers
--
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester
Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.
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