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

Simon Kirby (sim@netnation.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 07:15:31 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:

> > 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.

Erm...it's on an UltraWide SCSI drive. :)

Simon-

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