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- From: ehammeg@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (erik.hammega)
- Subject: ELC swapping problem : SUMMARY
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.084753.11171@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: swap bug SUMMARY
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:47:53 GMT
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- A couple of weeks ago I asked about the swapping I saw on my
- 16Mb ELC. This occured even when the system wasn't doing anything.
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- I got a lot of responses of people giving me advise or telling me
- they saw the same thing on their system.
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- We are talking about a Sun ELC, 16Mb RAM, running SunOS 4.1.2 and OW 3.0
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- The advise I got was to :
-
- - buy more memory
- - Stop using X/News and try X11
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- In the mean time I had reported this problem to my local Sun organisation
- and they came up with the following (unsatisfying) answer:
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- Starting with SunOS 4.1.1 there has been a bug (id 1052542) which caused
- swapping activity every 30 seconds when using a swap file (with swapon).
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- It seems that when modifying SunOS 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 this bug (virus?)
- spread to the standard swap partition software.
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- In fact he said not to worry about the swap activity shown by perfmeter/vmstat.
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- Personaly I find this most unsatisfying since I will constantly be wondering
- if the swapping that I see is "for real" or just some stupid bug.
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- Thanks to those who replied I hope you find this usefull.
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-
- Erik Hammega
- AT&T Network Systems Nederland
- Email ehammeg@hvlpa.att.com
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