[tech] morwong

[Leighton Haynes]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:03:25PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> as some people may have notices, morwong went *really* slow this afternoon.
> Looking through the process list, there are a lot of getty's running.
> like 128.  I also noticed that there is a process called 'kernel idle'
> taking up 332M.  i presume (hope!) this is a normal process, having never
> noticed it before.
> and top listed:
> Memory: Real: 25M/241M act/tot  Virtual: 139M/256M use/tot  Free: 920K
> 
> If I interpret that as 25M of real memory in use, out of a possible 256MB
> and  139MB of swap used, then something's wierd.
Bah, that's nothing :) I once wrote a kernel device driver that managed to wrap the number 
reporting the memory usage :) Was only (re)mapping 4kb at a time too :P
Was quite entertaining watching memory usage skyrocket then come back in as zero...


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