Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 21:59:38 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pagedaemon and shared memory [was: Heavy system load by pagedaemon]. Message-ID: <200605282159.38315.soralx@cydem.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21_heb2.09.0605281818360.3101-100000@aristold.tau.ac.il> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21_heb2.09.0605281818360.3101-100000@aristold.tau.ac.il>
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> with 512Mb. The vmware guest (a Windows 2000) is allocated 256Mb. Every > once in a while (around five times a day), the machine freezes. The clock > on the toolbar stops counting the seconds. I have top running on a session > from another machine (it is a second machine I can switch to using KVM) > which also freezes (no screen refresh). Disk activity is heavy (lamp is > on). After over 30 seconds, the machine is back to normal and everything > works fine. The vmware process resident size goes down from ~200Mb to > ~100Mb. I also notices some relations to running acroread 7 with large PDF > files (which might also need shared memory for its operation). I had the > exact same problem on the same box when I was running FreeBSD 4.10 (which > I attributed at first to a bad disk, which was replaced when I upgraded > from 4.10 to 6.1). Isn't this normal? I noticed long time ago that paging always causes freezes, as though there is no context switching during swapping at all. [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2
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