dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) (06/14/88)
My newsfeed began sending me compressed news a few weeks ago and since then I have been running into a problem fairly regularly. The uncompress eats up a large amount of memory, and if I happend to have something else that is a memory hog (like vnews with a vi sub-process) I run out of swap space and the system starts complaining. However, instead of doing something sensible, like killing a process or two, it seems to get hung up in a perpetual swap state. Only my super-user shell works, everything else is hung up. Trying to kill -9 some of the offensive processes leaves me with zombies that won't go away, and a system that still won't do anything. The only way to get the system to work again is to reboot. Has anyone else run into this problem? Any fixes for this besides making a larger swap partition? -- David L. Smith {sdcsvax!jack,ihnp4!jack, hp-sdd!crash, pyramid, uport}!sdeggo!dave sdeggo!dave@amos.ling.edu Sinners can repent but stupid is forever.
john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (06/18/88)
In article <214@sdeggo.UUCP>, dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes: > My newsfeed began sending me compressed news a few weeks ago and since then > I have been running into a problem fairly regularly. The uncompress eats I ran into this a while back on an abnormally large News session. Unfortunely I beleive I beleive the only solution is to increase the size of your swap partition. I increased mine to 8000 blocks and havnt had a problem now in 9 months or so. John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: wa3wbu!john@uunet.UU.NET Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P
wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) (06/25/88)
In article <214@sdeggo.UUCP>, dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes: % My newsfeed began sending me compressed news a few weeks ago and since then % I have been running into a problem fairly regularly. The uncompress eats In article <601@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > I ran into this a while back on an abnormally large News session. > Unfortunely I beleive I beleive the only solution is to increase the > size of your swap partition. I increased mine to 8000 blocks and > havnt had a problem now in 9 months or so. I initially did this, too, but then I decided it was taking far too long decompressing the news files with the 16-bit decompress. My feed didn't want to have to arrange a special 13-bit compression for my site (they feed about 5 other sites, too). So I just bought a 2400 baud modem and xfer every thing uncompressed. It is actually faster than the total time to xfer compressed and de-compress the files. My system is fairly slow, though - 8 Mhz 286/287. I do handle quite a bit of traffic, the average is a little over 1 meg/day - I feed a college in Ogden (wsccs, net23, wscvax, and wsceng). -- /|\ Barnacle Wes @ Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch / | \ @ J/22 #49, _d_J_i_n_n_i /__|__\ ___|____ "If I could just be sick, I'd be fine." ( / -- Joe Housely, owner of _E_p_i_d_e_m_i_c -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~