From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:30:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:30:15 -0500 Received: from 209.102.21.2 ([209.102.21.2]:61445 "EHLO dragnet.seagull.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:30:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3A50F77B.2EA2FF12@goingware.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:32:43 +0000 From: "Michael D. Crawford" Organization: GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test13-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VM thrashing in test13-pre4 with Netscape Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I don't know if this is a Netscape problem, or an XFree86 4.0.1 problem, or a kernel problem. I hadn't noticed it with previous kernels so I thought I should mention it. I'll download the latest kernel source tonight and try it out. I'm using 2.4.0-test13-pre4 with XFree86 4.0.1 and Netscape Communicator 4.73. The distro is slackware 7.1 on a Pentium III 667 MHz machine with an ASUS motherboard with a Via chipset and an Adaptec 29160 SCSI host bus adapter. It has 128 MB of 133 MHz ram. If I browse with Netscape for a while, after a while I start hearing a lot of disk activity and the response of the machine slows way down. "top" often shows kswapd as having the top CPU time. In one instance of this, Netscape was using 60% of the memory and XFree86 was using 40%. (I'm not sure if this is the memory in use or percentage of all available memory). If I quit netscape the thrashing stops, and I can start it up again and run OK for a while, but it seems to start up again much sooner. After a while I have to reboot. When it happens, the onset seems pretty sudden. It doesn't appear like something's slowly leaking memory. It feels more like something suddenly goes haywire. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ crawford@goingware.com Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/