Re: 2.1.110 odd swapping

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:56:25 -0400

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George wrote:
>
> Attempting to boot my machine with only 4MB of RAM ended up stopping at the
> end of the rc.d scripts as soon as init would normally spawn the (10)
> consoles. Using ALT+SysRQ+P showed the kernel (2.1.110 SMP) looping in the
> following addresses:
>
> c012635c t swap_out
> c01263af <- loop (infrequent)
> c012644c t do_try_to_free_page
>
> c0108230 T cpu_idle
> c0108270 <- loop (frequent)
> c0108354 T sys_idle
>
> ALT+SysRQ+M showed 80k-200k free memory and 83kb buffer memory at various
> points of time. The free swap space hovered around 30MB of 32MB. After a
> few minutes, nothing changed and I finally gave up with the reset button.

Hi George,

FWIW, I have been able to run my system on 4M. It got stuck trying to
start innd, but I killed it with ALT-SysRQ-E and was able to log in and
run commands. Smbfs worked, but not nfs.

Regards,
Bill

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