Hi Hans, On Wednesday 03 October 2007 05:29, Hans Fugal wrote: > A few general observations... > > The kernel is smart enough to swap out only the inactive bits, but it > can't work miracles. :-) If there's not enough RAM for all the active > bits, then active stuff has to get swapped out, and it will soon be > swapped right back in. I've seen thrashing bring a desktop to its > knees. Seemingly locked up, my keystrokes would show up in the > terminal window after a few minutes, and I was able to initiate a safe > reboot. It only took an hour of waiting. > > I've probably told you a lot of what you already know, but maybe you > can pick out that vital trick you may lack in how to pinpoint memory > behavior from my comments. Good luck!
Thanks for clarifying. I am indeed aware of the general gist, but there are indeed a few things that weren't too clean. I don't really remember anymore, what the active memory status was, at the time I saw the severe trashing, but I seem to remember it was pretty full. Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
