Re: [9fans] termrc changes

["John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On 11/29/06, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> I have not seen any of the alleged problems with swapping.  I
> certainly haven't seen freezing or crashing due to swapping.  I have
> seen one problem on one machine that may be attributable to a bug in
> the VM code (or may reflect marginal hardware).  Let's get together at
> IWP9 and figure out if the alleged swap bugs are real or urban myth.
>
>

I have experienced freezing due to what I assume is swap on two
machines. Both had low memory, and would lock up completely when I was
compiling a kernel and reached a certain swap usage (perhaps 30%). I
didn't test the problem with anything else, so it could possibly be a
problem in the kernel compilation procedure (I personally doubt it),
but one machine had 32 MB of RAM and the other had 64, and both would
only lock up once they had hit a certain swap usage.


John
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