From: Ookhoi <ookhoi@dds.nl>
To: Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@druid.if.uj.edu.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:52:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010627145226.P18733@cuddle.dds.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106242133550.19801-100000@druid.if.uj.edu.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106242133550.19801-100000@druid.if.uj.edu.pl>
Hi Maciej Zenczykowski,
> This is happening on a freshly installed RH7.1 notebook.
> Celeron 400 + 64 mb ram, kernel as shipped (2.4.2-2, have not even
> recompiled it yet). I have a 140 mb swap partition set up but at the time
> this happened it was OFF. I was (still am) running X + twm + two xterms
> with ssh + netscape (this is probably the cause of the entire problem).
> I had a single netscape window open with a mid-graphic intensive screen.
> The system started thrashing... Now my question is how can it be
> thrashing with swap explicitly turned off? [oh just to make stuff even
> funnier netscape is at nice -19 (i.e. lower priority)]
nice -19 means high priority doesn't it? It is not nice towards other
processes.
Ookhoi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-27 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-24 19:47 Thrashing WITHOUT swap Maciej Zenczykowski
2001-06-24 20:07 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-24 21:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-25 8:13 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-25 16:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-25 9:21 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-25 16:02 ` [OT] " Daniel Phillips
[not found] ` <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-06-25 16:16 ` Colonel
2001-06-25 16:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-26 12:36 ` john slee
2001-06-27 12:52 ` Ookhoi [this message]
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