From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:24:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:24:29 -0400 Received: from [213.96.124.18] ([213.96.124.18]:43755 "HELO dardhal") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:24:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:53 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps Message-ID: <20010607202453.A2263@dardhal.mired.net> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3B1F2BFE.28E7CCF0@idb.hist.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :). -- José Luis Domingo López Linux Registered User #189436 Debian GNU/Linux Potato (P166 64 MB RAM) jdomingo EN internautas PUNTO org => ¿ Spam ? Atente a las consecuencias jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk