Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

José Luis Domingo López
2001-06-07T18:24:39Z

On Thursday, 07 June 2001, at 09:23:42 +0200,
Helge Hafting wrote:

> Derek Glidden wrote:
> >
> > Helge Hafting wrote:
> [...]
> The machine froze 10 seconds or so at the end of the minute, I can
> imagine that biting with bigger swap.
>
Same behavior here with a Pentium III 600, 128 MB RAM and 128 MB of swap.
Filled mem and swap with the infamous glob() "bug" (ls ../*/.. etc.), made
swapoff, and the machine kept very responsive except for the last 10-15
seconds before swapoff ends.

Even scrolling complex pages with Mozilla 0.9 worked smoothly :).

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