Subject: RE: Freeze again.
To: None <bad@ora.de, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <mvanloon@MindBender.serv.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/07/1998 19:30:14
More likely 8MB was a magic number?  (Used to be 4MB...)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Christoph Badura [SMTP:bad@ora.de]
> Sent:	Saturday, February 07, 1998 5:49 PM
> To:	port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Re: Freeze again.
> 
> burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) wrote:
> 
> >I found that no matter how much swap I specified, when the amount of
> >swap in use was 200% of my available memory, my system would freeze.
> I
> >doubled the amount of real memory and the hangs went away.
> 
> Well, one of my machines was using a lot more then 200% of available
> memory
> recently with no problems.  (About 500%, and paging heavily.)
> I don't think 200% is a magic number.