Subject: More swap space => more core dumps
To: port-amiga <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Yli-Urpo Jussi <y137948@proffa.cc.tut.fi>
List: port-amiga
Date: 12/17/1996 20:59:44
Hello everyone!
A couple of days ago I added a new swap partition on my
A3000 running NetBSD 1.2. I thought it would help when there
is lots of swapping (I have only 8 Mb of fast ram).
Well, maybe there was a little increase in performance but
since then there has been too many crashes of programs like
Xamiga, xterm and tcsh and this is making me sort of
nervous. Xamiga has for example made a core twice in two
days... There was lots of free swap space when the crashes
occured.
The swap space was added on my second harddisk (sd0). This
is an output of 'pstat -s':
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/sd1b 21488 4088 17400 19% Interleaved
/dev/sd0b 36640 5176 31464 14% Interleaved
Total 58128 9264 48864 16%
There is also many network errors coming from the ariadne
device. Typical errors are framing error, crc mismatch,
missed packet and babble. These mostly occur when there is
some swapping. Is there any other way to better situation
than buying more memory or/and 040-060?
I have a standard A3000 with EGS Spectrum and Ariadne.
I'm running X11R6.1 with Xamiga compiled for cirrus based
gfxcards only (from uni-regensburg).
Thanks in advance.
--
Jussi.