Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage

Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02T21:12:36Z

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> Well I don't have any such problems here. I wrote this script
> from your instructions. I don't know if you REALLY wanted all
> the file content to go out to the screen, but I wrote it explicitly.

[snip]

> Script started on Thu Aug 2 16:50:47 2001
> # ps -laxw | grep pause
> 140 0 16 1 -1 -20 712 40 pause S < ? 0:00 (bdflush) te
> 0 0 7433 1 9 0 321056 137808 pause S 1 0:02 /tmp/try
> 0 0 7631 7626 19 0 844 240 R p0 0:00 grep pause
> # cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 328048640 326234112 1814528 0 4255744 173219840
> Swap: 1069268992 189992960 879276032
^^^^^^^^^
You still have almost 1GB of swap left. I mean use all the memory in your
box, RAM + swap.

As I said, I expect degraded performance but not a complete meltdown.

-jwb