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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 12:12, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> If I try to do ~50 simultanous reads from disk, it's no problem as long as 
> the data is being read from the nic with the same speed as it's being read 
> from disk. The server apps are running via inetd (testing), and have 2MB of 
> buffer each. (read 2MB from disk, write 2MB to NIC).
> 
> The server chrashes within minutes. The same problem occurs when using Tux
> 

How much physical memory and is your app using sendfile ?