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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: SO DO I: PROBLEM WITH HANGING KERNEL AFTER HEAVY
Message-ID: <1993Jun2.183200.14261@coe.montana.edu>
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References: <1993May31.180743.18903@vlsi.polymtl.ca> <hastyC8090y.Exv@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 18:32:00 GMT
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In article <hastyC8090y.Exv@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <1993May31.180743.18903@vlsi.polymtl.ca> big@von-neumann (Patrick Drolet) writes:
>>I've also experienced problems with netBSD 0.8 while rebuilding an xfree
>>X386 kernel. I've got 32 megs of swap & 8 megs of ram.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Doing serious X work on a 8MB machine is asking for trouble. Linux does it
better than we do here, but on a 16MB machine I've had no troubles whatsoever.
>>
>>Before it hangs, my swapinfo tells me that all (32 megs) the swap area is
>>being used, but I have to run swapinfo (with a script looping on swapinfo
>>every 5 seconds) to know the problem. The OS doesn't tell me that swap area
>>is fully used.
>>
>>Maybe I'll try to build the X386 kernel using gcc 1.x instead of 2.x
>>
>
>Well, I have build XS3 with gcc-2.3.3 several times and NetBSD-0.8
>refuses to hang :-)
>
>And, I have slip and NFS up and running.
>This morning I re-booted our NFS server and the other NFS client
>after the server came up had no problems in seeing the nfs mounted
>partition -- very, very cool.
>
>The sore note is that I was trying to mount a low density DOS floppy
>which cause the system to hang not cool at all.
The floppy driver is very messed up, but a better version is in the next
patchkit (Julian/J. Monroy version).
And, I've had absolutely no hanging problems running my box under HEAVY
loads. I have folks ftping from here, run a couple mailing lists, and
locally I'm running X and doing multiple compiles. Just for grins last
week I attempted to run up my swap to the wall, and though I swapped the
snot out of my box, it still ran GREAT. (I maxed out at 32MB of swap,
but it was pretty difficult to do that on a 16MB machine even with
multiple compiles and about 14 windows + other X apps up on my box.)
(BTW - I have 2 swap partitions and 48MB of swap, a 16MB and a 32MB swap
partition)
This is 386BSD 0.1 + 0.2.4-Alpha patchkit.
Nate
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