Re: More swap space => more core dumps

[Michael Teske <teske%wotan.desy.de@localhost>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Yli-Urpo Jussi wrote:

> 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. 
> 

Hmm. Maybe the new swap partition is on a broken disk?
Read/Write errors on swap are fatal, I think.
Perhasp you should try to use another partition/disk?


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Michael Teske (teske%wotan.desy.de@localhost)