Re: 2.1.131: Poor behavior when VM exhausted

Eric Lee Green (eric@linux-hw.com)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 23:06:36 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 2.0.36: System goes into a bit of a swap storm, gets very sluggish, but I can
> > switch to another window and kill Netscape.
>
> Yep
>
> > 2.1.131: System goes into a furious swap storm, when try to switch to
> > another window "X" locks up, cannot move mouse pointer, reset switch
> > time.
>
> 2.1.131ac11 c/o Stephen Tweedies VM behaves like 2.0.x in this case.

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

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