Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:54:35 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk I/O problems with -current. Message-ID: <20010821125435.G17739@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010820115207.B1696@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:52:07AM %2B0100 References: <20010820115207.B1696@tao.org.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:52:07AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm having strange problems with -current on a laptop with 64mb of > memory. Periodically "things go strange" [tm]. > > Because of the lack of memory I'm using a fair amount of swap. > > Everything runs smoothly up until a point, which seems to depend upon > not running too many large processes for too long. Then the file system > grinds to a halt for seconds at a time. Some processes run, and others > just hang. Yes, I see almost exactly the same thing (except that I haven't noticed any processes which stay running during the freeze -- things like keyboard and mouse activity in X or the console always freeze). Mine could well be swap related too, though I have 128MB of memory. I really think developers should be made to run -current on an old, slow, crippled machines so they notice this kind of thing which would be lost in the noise on their fast machines :-) Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7grx6Wry0BWjoQKURAiiaAKCxkoxrHuMHcTzH52NzmZhCkzZiDwCeKe7L EZQhg/OZbj8zQ7GaT+VscCk= =a6d+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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