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From: titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs
Date: 11 Dec 1992 04:37:34 GMT
Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
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In article <ByysLH.Axr@ns1.nodak.edu> tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes:
>In article <jason.723781864@sorokin> jason@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Jason Andrade) writes:
>>Interesting. I'm having exactly the same problems. Runing nroff 3 or 4 times or compiling a lot seems to hang the system too. (18 reboots so far and about 20% of the srcdist compiled...). I've speculated that its because the machine isnt
>>swapping, but i dont really know how id find out if this is the case..
>
>this is the infamous VM problem. When swap is filled (or gets totally
>fragmented), the system can freeze. The nature of the VM makes this problem
>very difficult to totally solve. There are attempts to correct this problem
>for good. You can avoid the symptoms by adding more swap space. You must
hmmm .. we already have 24 megs of swap space and 8 megs of ram on the
system that jason described.. we could always add a 2nd swap i guess :P
titus
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