Re: My memory is rusty

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (root@lightside.ddns.org)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 05:53:58 +0200 (MET DST)

> probably just because you are trying to run programs that are "memory
> hogs" and of course, the way to solve that is to increase your RAM and
> processor power. I know how it is to run at 16 M with a Pentium
> >
> > Somewhere in the 2.1.xx series (maybe 2.1.4x, but I'm not sure) of
> > Linux kernels I noticed that rapid rusting was setting in. After
> > using the system for a time, which could be less than an hour, the
> > performance would become very sluggish due to swapping and only
> > rebooting seems to restore system performance.

Bill is right, or we are both wrong :) I noticed this too in 2.1.4x ..
After a few days of uptime with no intensive processes running, it felt
really sluggish due to swapping. Actually, I do remember once that I left
the kernel idling on one of the boxen (dx4, 12mb i think), came to have a
look in the morning, and this was the behaviour I encountered.

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