From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:24:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:24:26 -0400 Received: from [203.199.83.245] ([203.199.83.245]:49541 "HELO mailweb33.rediffmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:24:25 -0400 Date: 10 Aug 2002 06:27:50 -0000 Message-ID: <20020810062750.15683.qmail@mailweb33.rediffmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Karan Misra" Reply-To: "Karan Misra" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Swapping problems ! Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am hving a peculiar problem: When ever I am loading a few applications (XEmacs, KDE, gcc, VMWare) on my 256M machine(520M swap), my system goes for a run... What exactly happens is the Harddisk just thrases and my computer slows down to a crawl. Only a reboot solves the problem. However I tried something like: swapoff /dev/hda2; swapon /dev/hda2 and the problem stopped... I run ext3 on /boot & / Anyway can HELP me... __________________________________________________________ Give your Company an email address like ravi @ ravi-exports.com. Sign up for Rediffmail Pro today! Know more. http://www.rediffmailpro.com/signup/