Re: Multia 5.2 Out of Memory

[Paul Tomblin <ptomblin xcski com>]

Quoting Mark Conway Wirt (mark@intrepid.net):
> On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 06:54:50PM -0500, Mark Conway Wirt wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:37:35PM -0500, Dave Beck wrote: 
> > > I have 64mb in all my udb boxen.  They all netboot and use nfs root
> > > filesystems.  I routinely compile kernels and other software while
> > > running X.  Occasionally they hit swap during such a session, but
> > > for the most part, they are swap free and perform rather well for
> > > being completely diskless.

I have 96Mb, X, approximately 18 xterms open, Netscape (running on my Intel
machine, display set to the UDB), inn handling 4 simultaneous news feeds and
three news readers (me, my wife and my step daughter), majordomo (6 mailing
lists), a bunch of sendmail processes running, apache (100 hits a day),
usually a few javac or egcs compiles going, 2 or 3 vim sessions, etc.
Everything is fine, hardly ever crashes.

> And speaking of swap: When my laptop swaps (IDE), the machine becomes
> unusable.  When the UDB swaps, it just slows things down a bit.
> 
> Is SCSI *that* much better, or does one expect the architecture of the UBD
> to be superior to a similar-vintage Pentium box?

I think it's the SCSI.  I've had the load average briefly go up over 200
(during a HIPCRIME newgroup/rmgroup attack), but the system stayed up and
nothing crashed except inn (too many file handles open).

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