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- From: bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
- Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.223932.15096@runx.oz.au>
- Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
- References: <andrewh.724059111@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> <jason.724071780@sorokin> <1992Dec12.073053.2721@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 22:39:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.073053.2721@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
-
- >RAM isn't a problem; I have run a sufficiently stripped kernel on a 640K
- >(no extended or expanded memory!) 386 Box with an NE2K card for periods
- >in excess of 4 days with moderate usage (20 Meg swap on a 30 Meg drive
- >and /usr remote mounted). Moderate usage is 3 users curious about it and
- >beating on the compiler. Obviously, no X 8-).
-
- How fast does it run? I have run a fairly large kernel on a 386 system with
- 1664K. It runs OK until it starts swapping. (Actually it runs dismally
- because the disks are slow MFM 2:1 interleave and the system has to go to the
- disk for almost everything.) When it starts swapping, the disk light stays
- on all the time and it takes several minutes to run the shell script
- 'umount -af; sync'. The shell is bash (definitely too big). All known
- patches related to memory leaks and disk activity are installed.
- --
- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)
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