Hi all,
Harald wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 21-May-99 Richard van den Berg wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it known that using a swap partition is a no go on DECstations,
> > garanteed to halt the system? It looks like that a swapped out process
> > doesn't get swapped back, for example a telnet session unused for a
> > while becomes dead. Compiling kernel or egcs the machine halts within
> > the hour silently, or that the compiler receives a fatal signal as the
> > last message.
>
> Does the attached patch help?
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Harald
I've tried to reproduce the swap problem on my 260, but after allocating
and using 250Mb RAM, all processes paged in quite happily.
It looks like Haralds patch is R[23]k specific. That makes sense.
Has someone tested Haralds patch? If so, please let me know, I'll update
my kernel images.
Regards.
--
Karel van Houten
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The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better."
I can't understand why it won't work on my Linux computer.
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