Re: Very bad swap bug -- 2.0, 2.1 at least

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:02:54 +0200 (MET DST)

> This swap bug that I mentioned a while back is still happening, and this
> time seems to be much worse than before. In this particular case it is
> happening on a medium-loaded web server running 2.0.35. It's causing the
> load to go up to 5 or so due to the disk I/O being so saturated that many
> user processes get blocked.

It's certainly not a fix for a problem, but if you are using IDE, you
might want to try unmasking interrupts on your swap drive.

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