On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:12:39AM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote:
> Yes, I believe so -- I see "virtual memory exhausted"... messages
> fairly regularly on both my SS20.  As you say, mostly during builds.

I left a new kernel to build last night before I went to bed, and it
failed shortly after I left the room.  (:

> I'm not sure how to help isolate either (suggestions welcome, of
> course), but I think I would agree w/your notion about suspecting
> memory leakage/fragmentation -- both ss20 have 512MB and were
> performing their respective duties running 1.6 for months without
> incident.  I was excited (still am, really) about running MP in
> these systems, hence the upgrade to 2.0 .

one interesting clue I was seeing last night while compiling a new
kernel; a few times the context switches / second started going through
the roof and I had to kill the compile to get the machine to settle back
down.

what I find odd is that it wasn't swapping at all.

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