[Rule-list] Testing 0.7.1 with 8 MB - almost!

Devon devon at tuxfan.homeip.net
Wed Feb 27 06:52:48 EET 2002


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On Tuesday 26 February 2002 11:01 am, Martin Stricker wrote:

> > I wouldn't call that a 'nice' swap amount. The system is trying like
> > crazy to keep enough memory available to run. If you ran top, you
> > would see that kswapd is using close to 100% of the cpu.
>
> I meant it ironically. 

I know you did. I just wanted to point out just how 'un-nice' it was. ;)

> And top gets a command not found when I type it
> (at least with RULE installer 0.5.3, I haven't tried it since),
> otherwise I would have included the top output, of course.

I should have been more clear. If you _could_ run top.....
I'm just assuming that kswapd is using all the cpu, but it seems likely.
My installs below 12M were so shaky, I was afraid to even try running top.
At 8M, I really wasn't able to run much of anything in <vt2>

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