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From: carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging
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Date: 14 Nov 89 07:13:08 GMT
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In article <SWFC.89Nov9104448@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu> swfc@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes:
>
>My NeXT machine has been hanging recently.  It seems that my swapfile grows
>to my high watermark of 80Mbytes and then thrashes(?) to death.  Basically,
>I couldn't do anything with my windows (I just get the little disk icon as
>the mouse pointer) and I couldn't login from another machine.

I'm trying to avoid this hanging by (1) setting the hiwater mark
(w/ mach-swapon) and (2) NFS mounting another swap file.  I'll
let you know what happens.

John