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Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:03:03 -0400
From: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
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On Thu, May 23, 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net> wrote:
> I've been here complaining about the 2.4 VM before, and here I am, back again.
> 
> PROBLEM:
> ----------------------
> Starting up 30 downloads from a custom HTTP server (or Tux - or Apache - 
> doesn't matter), file size is 3-6GB, download speed = ~4.5Mbps. After some 
> time the kernel (a) goes bOOM (out of memory) if not having any swap, or (b) 
> goes gong swapping out anything it can.
> 
> The custom HTTP server processes each have a static buffer of two megabytes, 
> no malloc()s, and are written in < 1000 lines of C.
> 
> Theory: The buffer fills up, as the clients can't read as fast as kernel is 
> reading from disk, and the server goes boom
> 
> thanks for any help

What kernel is this?

JE