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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!fht-mannheim!roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de!duz From: duz@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Dirk Zoller) Subject: Re: Possible Swapping bug (or design flaw?) References: <5JUL199421385862@acad3.alaska.edu> <hk4RJ35.dysonj@delphi.com> Sender: news@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de (NEWS - system account) Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik, Mannheim (FRG) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 12:54:35 CET X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <1994Jul18.125434.18703@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de> Lines: 31 Hello, my problem may be related. Configuration: 486DX33 ISA with 2 IDE drives, 20 MB RAM, 16 MB Swap (I know the swapspace is too small according to the installation program, but I have limited disk space and I can't understand why I need more swap when I have more RAM. It should be the other way round. And I happily ran Linux with no swap at all for several month.) I regularly observe that swap runs full while I'm working. I mostly use emacs and compilers, TeX and X of course. I don't feel I'm stressing the system very much. (The system may be multitasking, not so myself :-) One time immediately after I installed one of those large packages (i.e. used lot of tar, gunzip and lot of disk activity) the system died when I said `ll' (which is a shell script calling `ls -lF'). The system really simply died! From within my xterm, 2 seconds later I had my BIOS sign-on msg. After boot everything was back to normal. This happened only once. Dirk --- duz@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de <Dirk Zoller> "Software is neither science nor engineering. It's really an obscure form of poetry."