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From: keith@reed.UUCP (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd
Subject: 2.9 swap problems
Message-ID: <2529@reed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 01:03:53 EST
Article-I.D.: reed.2529
Posted: Wed Feb 19 01:03:53 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 04:32:10 EST
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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I'm trying to bring up the new 2.9 unix (ala Bostic) and was trying to test
the swapper for a new disk handler by launching a slew of beefy processes to
force swaps.  The program:

char c [48*1024];
main()
{
  for (;;);
}

I'm using an 11/73 with 1 meg and running an overlaid kernal with the networking
code installed.  There are a goodly number of daemons present too.  The problem
is when I reach the level where a swap is forced (about 13 of those beasts in
the background), I get a short of swap; no more processes error.  My swap device
is about 2 meg, so there should be no problem.  This is with the RL02 handler.
Even killing these background beasts refuses to allow me to start any new
processes.  I tried this out on the old 2.9 release with no problems.
	Anyone run into this kind of trouble?

		Thanx,  Bob Ankeney

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