From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:53:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:52:53 -0400 Received: from office-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net ([213.218.69.13]:18614 "HELO cuddle.dds.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:52:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:52:26 +0200 From: Ookhoi To: Maciej Zenczykowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap. Message-ID: <20010627145226.P18733@cuddle.dds.nl> Reply-To: ookhoi@dds.nl In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Uptime: 17:19:10 up 42 min, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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