> I applied the patch today, and though at first it seemed to work
> quite well, I encountered some very strange behaviour. My system was
> 97% idle with a load average of 6 or 7, and responsiveness was
> completely gone while trying to compile ddd 3.1.
> xosview showed a swapping activity > 20 all the time, the machine
> hardly calmed down when I aborted the compilation.
This should be fixed in v4 of the patch. There was a typo
and a real bug in v3 of the patch.
You can get the new version from my home page...
cheers,
Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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