Swapfile problem in 6?

[Lars Kristiansen]

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:15:37AM -0800, Rob wrote:
>>
>> One more thing, for those who are reading this thread.
>>
>> Concerning my kernel locking up while using a
>> swapfile:
>>
>> I had an infinite while loop running during the
>> kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every
>> 15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes
>> dead is this:
>>
>>  /dev/ad0s1b         39848    11820    39848    30%
>>  /dev/md0           131072     5908   131072     5%
>>  Total              170920    17728   153192    10%
>>
>> which means that swap space is OK right before the
>> freeze, but within 15 seconds from here, the kernel
>> locks up....
>
> In my experience, fifteen seconds is enough to fill up 130+MB of swap,
> so a much smaller polling interval is necessary.

Probably true, but when trying with only one swap partition instead of
swapfile, and that partition gets filled up, the build process failed and
the computer continued to work as normal.

Regards
--
Lars

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