Grant wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:54:25 -0400, lucas <aolblowz@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> In that case you were in the middle of a swap storm and impatient?
>
> Turning off swap appears to lock the system as it must search and
> discard stale (dead) memory in order to bring swapped out (live)
> memory back into core.
>
> During this process, the kernel should be given some alternative
> swap space, perhaps a swapfile ~16MB (wild guess) so that urgent
> allocations may be satisfied --> Example: some service needs > 4kB
> contiguous memory _now_, it wants to evict something quickly or die,
> eg. incoming net traffic data buffer.

I had waited for the hard drive to settle down before I did that. But, next
time this happens, I'll create a temporary swap file. Thanks for the idea.

Regards,
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lucas
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