Re: 2.0.30: Lockups with huge proceses mallocing all VM

Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de)
Thu, 4 Dec 97 07:24 MET


In article <vxkiut6fiku.fsf@pocari-sweat.jprc.com> you write:
>statistical work on the mess. As it approaches occupation of the
>entire system's available VM, performance drops precipitously, though
>it remains responsive and usable with as little as 20Mbytes swap space
>remaining. When it finally closes on that last 20 or 10 Mbytes, the
>system simply hangs.

You will have to add more RAM and/or swap anyway to make the system
usable for this program.

And consider uprgrading to 2.0.32 which is far superior to 2.0.30.

hjb

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