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- From: ford@yoda.uucp (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: 2.1 kernel bug fix???
- Summary: That's not a kernel bug
- Keywords: X Window System memory hog
- Message-ID: <129@yoda.uucp>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 01:32:37 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.032927.12012@news.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Omnicron Data Systems
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1992Aug17.032927.12012@news.columbia.edu> wyk1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Won Y Kim) writes:
- >Problem is, the kernel bug stated in the addendum for 2.1
- >(where the swap space gradually dissolves away until there is no more..)
- >is really apparent now.
-
- The kernel bug mentioned in the 2.1 addendum is not what you are seeing
- -- that bug has the symptom that programs will not be able to allocate
- memory (address space, actually) even though there is plenty of swap
- space left. If you are running out of swap space (as shown by swap -s)
- it is because something really is using up memory, not because of the
- documented "EAGAIN bug".
- -=] Ford [=-
-
- "Well, he didn't know what to do, so (In Real Life: Mike Ditto)
- he decided to look at the government, ford@yoda.uucp
- to see what they did, and scale it uunet!cbmvax!kenobi!ford
- down and run his life that way." -- Laurie Anderson
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