Re: Pagedaemon and shared memory [was: Heavy system load by pagedaemon].


with 512Mb. The vmware guest (a Windows 2000) is allocated 256Mb. Every
once in a while (around five times a day), the machine freezes. The clock
on the toolbar stops counting the seconds. I have top running on a session
from another machine (it is a second machine I can switch to using KVM)
which also freezes (no screen refresh). Disk activity is heavy (lamp is
on). After over 30 seconds, the machine is back to normal and everything
works fine. The vmware process resident size goes down from ~200Mb to
~100Mb. I also notices some relations to running acroread 7 with large PDF
files (which might also need shared memory for its operation). I had the
exact same problem on the same box when I was running FreeBSD 4.10 (which
I attributed at first to a bad disk, which was replaced when I upgraded
from 4.10 to 6.1).

Isn't this normal? I noticed long time ago that paging always causes
freezes, as though there is no context switching during swapping at all.

[SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2
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