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- From: perry@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Perry Scott)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:59:48 GMT
- Subject: Re: HP 7xx problem with virtual memory (thrashing)
- Message-ID: <17780307@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpfcso!hpfcmgw!perry
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <1992Dec31.193847.6419@csi.com>
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- >I have found a serious deficiency with the HP-UX memory management and
- >was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem: whenever a process
- >require more memory than the amount of physical RAM that the system has,
- >the HP-UX operating system (8.05,8.07 & 9.0) start ``thrashing'', a
- >term HP uses to mean that the disk continues to swap indefinately
- >while the process makes no progress!
- >
- >Brian K. Pheiffer
- >bkp@csi.com
-
- We fixed a problem similar to this in 9.0 but apparently you've found
- another instance. :-( I have forwarded this to the kernel team. Has
- this been reported to the Response Center yet? (It sounds like it has.)
-
- Perry Scott
- HP Ft Collins
- perry@fc.hp.com
-