Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: > I have Marcelo's patch. It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any > swap. The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within > three seconds has become functionally dead. Zero response on any user

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: > Since the testN series and up through ac12, I experience total loss of > control when memory is nearly exhausted. > > I start with 256M and eat it up with programs until there is only about > 7 megs left, no swap. From that point all user processes

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
I have Marcelo's patch. It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any swap. The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within three seconds has become functionally dead. Zero response on any user input/output device save the magic key. The system

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
I have Marcelo's patch. It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any swap. The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within three seconds has become functionally dead. Zero response on any user input/output device save the magic key. The system

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: Since the testN series and up through ac12, I experience total loss of control when memory is nearly exhausted. I start with 256M and eat it up with programs until there is only about 7 megs left, no swap. From that point all user processes stall

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: I have Marcelo's patch. It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any swap. The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within three seconds has become functionally dead. Zero response on any user