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Should I create a static SWAP file?
What's more, sometimes the system will go into a seemingly endless loop of disk activity. Is there some way to flush buffers on command or even disable dynamic In my case, my system has 3 C++ hackers using Emacs and X, and before you know it most of our 32MB of RAM is all taken up and compiles start thrashing.

Merlin: My First Impressions
Possibilities of stack overflow, endless disk thrashing, cpu cycles vanishing into a black hole. Yup, that sounds like it could be hostile. So I wrote one to see what would happen. I couldn't get either ns or ie (both reasonably current versions) to do anything entertaining when I tried loading a self-referential

Hard Disk Thrashing
Between the bloat of Windows 2000 and the ceaseless, endless disk thrashing of Office 2000 apps (this is on my 1Ghz Athlon Thunderbird with a 7200RPM ATA66 drive), I've decided never to give another DIME to Microsoft. That's IT. I'm tired of software doing its best to imitate a 57563-man human pyramid and trying to

Excessive Hard Disk activity whilst idle in Win XP
... 1 x Weatherseed Treefolk, 3 x IA Painlands, 1 x Thrashing Wumpus, 4 x Yavimaya Hollows, 4 x Foil Basic Land, 1 x Monkey Cage, 4 x Spontaneous Generation .... Eladamri Vineyard, Endless Wurm, Glorious Anthem, Ivory Mask, Lifeline, Lightning Dragon, Necropotence, Nevinyrral's Disk, Ring of Gix, Rootwater Thief,

My god, is Netscape slow. Am I the only one?
I habve %given this guy the Usenet thrashing of a lifetime and HE STILL COMES BACK %FOR MORE. Can anyone be that dumb. The hate filled ScottZf certainly %seems to be. .... RtS in <38926b2...@news.uncensored-news.com> %DOS is Disk Operating System. It's needed by the disk, not by your operating %system.

2.4.10 much better than previous 2.4.x :-)
That's why you now notice endless disk activity. Your Warp 3.0 install was almost the bare minimum. You'll learn to love the thrashing disk activity soon though :-) What thrashing disk activity ??? I don't see that .. I have my swapfile set to the largest size I've seen and don't see the type of activity you're

CHKDSK bombs! [ was Re: Hard Disk improperly stopped?]
The slowness manifests itself as: taking much longer to switch between program functions, and more importantly, the latest version goes into seemingly endless episodes of "disk thrashing" where all you can do is watch your hard disk light flicker for several minutes at a time. ....And this is on a 486/66 with 8mb

Wants and Haves
Mike MacSween mike.macsween.nos...@btinternet.com microsoft public win2000 microsoft public win2000 active_directory microsoft public win2000 setup I have a win2K server. Some time after boot up (1 or 2 hours) the hard disks thrash without stopping. Eventually the thing runs out of virtual memory.

It's quiet in here today without Guido...
First, we put the dataset on our 2301 drum (a real drum, not a fixed-head disk). That helped a little, but didn't solve the problem. Then, we wrote quite a large mod to cache the job queue in hierarchy 2 core, and that, alone, moved the magic thrashing number up to about 85% CPU utilization, as I recall.

FS: CDs all $7 PPD
If you partition that drive with NTFS and reinstall NT on it, you might take care of the disk thrashing.. NT is constantly writing its processes and activities and if there's low memory, then, it'll have to keep writing to disk, therefore the endless disk thrashing.. Also, what 'services' sre you running?

CHAT ROOMS ARE DANGEROUS!
Does this memmory report look proper for a machine thrashing itself to death from endless mallocs? I've done several test with various versions of 2.4.x When OOM doesn't work, the disk starts spinning like crazy, responsiveness in null, mouse doesn't move, consoles don't update, unability to switch to text

M&M's Trade Auction - Timewalk, Foil Squee, APAC & more
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So, what about Classic?
Now, I get ENDLESS disk chatter and MANY TIMES not only can I not MULTITASK, I can't even get my MOUSE back for MINUTES. The swapfile is dynamic in OS/2, but if you pre-allocate a sizeable chunk of disk at startup you'll get a lot less disk thrashing - 16-32MB is a fair size. As for the cache, it depends on

Pickets are declining... have you noticed?
Otherwise, all you'd hear is the endless thrashing of your hard disk every time the textures need to be swapped. What you are proposing is to allow the card to access this kind of buffer directly for texturing as well as using local RAM. This approach has its problems though, as the card would have to wait until

Help! Performance of PP7+ shot to hell
That's why you now notice endless disk activity. Your Warp 3.0 install was almost the bare minimum. You'll learn to love the thrashing disk activity soon though :-) It's partly compensated by the increased speed of the disk I/O compared to Warp v3. You can trim Merlin down however, like not installing or

Hard Disk Thrashing
To speed up compilation on Windows I'd suggest to add CFLAGS += -pipe into $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_mingw32.GNU configuration file. I got bored watching disk thrashing waiting for the endless build to end and after adding this flag things started to move really faster :) -- Best regards, Serge mailto:

Optimal swap file size ?
... Mitchell wrote: I've just installed Caldera V2.3 and opening any application tends to lead to endless disk reads so that the system slows almost to a halt. to see if your swap is enabled, if there is nothing but zeros 0 0 0 listed after swap then it is not being used and that is the cause of the thrashing.

Fujitsu M1606 HD opinions
After a couple of minutes of disk thrashing I killed the x-server (rather than the process. I knew from experience that x would either act flaky or crash after that - thus That accounts for xEmacs running out of RAM and starting its endless hard-drive shuffle; but what about more, and less, and joe and vim?

Apple loses "loyalty" crown to Gateway and HP
I'd prefer if Wintrolls don't respond by thrashing my knowledge of their OS - I knew enough in my time and still had lots of problems. And these are opinions based on .... Windows 98 has the "Registry" A no-man's land of endless opportunities for screwing your computer up beyond repair..... 5) Trouble-shooting.

Windows 95 Likes to Crash!!
That would account for the hard drive thrashing. You might check your system to see how much physical memory is in use, and how much virtual memory is in use. Well, maybe. Fortunately, after I deinstall the HP printer driver, this behaviour isn't occur anymore (at least these last couple of days).