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- From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: [BUG REPORT] swapping trouble with 0.98-pl6 ?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.053957.19983@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 05:39:57 GMT
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- Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
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- I have been having trouble with 0.98-pl5 and 0.98-pl6 when
- running under X. The machine will suddenly lock when I try
- and run commands in an xterm window. This happens 1-4
- times an hour.
-
- I can reproduce the problem almost consistently by trying
- to copies of ghostview simultainously. Other commands that
- frequently cause the system to hang are: tar, groff and
- make/gcc.
-
- At first I thought that this might be a problem with the
- X386-S3 server. However, some experimentation proved this
- theory invalid. I have this trouble under pl5 or pl6, with
- X386-S3 version 0.2b or 0.3 or the X386mono server.
-
- I stress-tested the system outside of X to see if I could
- reproduce the problem, but had no luck. Though I pushed the
- load average over 3 with extreme disk activity, nothing
- broke. However, I was unable to use up much of the swap
- space--which is what I think kills everything.
-
- Is anybody else having troubles like this? This is perhaps
- the worst bug I have disovered since the old SCSI code
- would trash my disk daily...
-
- My system:
-
- 486/33DX, EISA bus
- 8MB ram
- AHA1542 SCSI disks
-
- 8MB swap parition
-
- -Chris
-
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- University of Rochester * will screw it up." *
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