Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:26:39 +0200
From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: Jason Lewis <jason@dickson.st>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:26:34 +1000, Jason Lewis wrote:
> I seem to be experiencing some problems with it. boot and load X ok, but
> as soon as I try and do anything interesting in X, like run xchat, or
> apt-get update, the system grings to a halt. the load goes through the
> roof, and the hdd starts grinding away madly.
> 
> But I can run my system quite succesfully under 2.4
> 
> [...]
>
> Script started on Sun 28 Sep 2003 00:56:41 EST
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
> [...]
>  1  8      0   3360    836   6024    0    0 16404    16 3666  2158  1 13  0 86
>  1 11      0   3504    828   5888    0    0 14956     4 6185  3344  0 11  0 89
>  3  9      0   3392    816   6016    0    0  6864     0 3903  2088  0 11  0 89
>  2 13      0   3464    820   5880    0    0 11148     0 3105  1960  0 12  0 87
>  0 12      0   3424    816   6008    0    0 19712     0 5519  3184  0 12  0 87

          ^^^^
Looks like you don't have swap enabled. Are successful 2.4 runs with or
without swap?

Roger
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