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Be prepare to be amazed, be thrilled, be moved, B-17!
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 kernels, Giving time to the machine to recover itself is not helpful: after more than 15 minutes the disk continue to spin and sound like they were to

Adding Expanded Storage
George Moore g...@trsvax.sq.com rec humor funny reruns [Ed: For those who are tired of endless repostings of the Sex Life of an Electron, which I first read when I was 16, Mini stopped his thrashing by introducing a voltage spike into his main supply, whereupon he fell over with a head crash and went to sleep.

Endless hard disk seek on VFP8.0b.
I say "print" because after all the disk thrashing the printer went through all the motions of printing, moving the print head, moving the paper, but failed to I tried installing LPRng but I ran into endless dependency problems, so gave that idea up as a bad job. It's not a hardware problem, Two installs on two

It's quiet in here today without Guido...
Dave Gayman dgay...@nix.netcom.com alt soft-sys corel draw After a Windows crash, and subsequent uninstallation and re-installation of PhotoPaint7+, I'm getting endless disk thrashing with a 28Mb picture with 13 objects. 9 X 11 inch picture 576 DPI More than 600Mb available on virtual space (set in PP7's Options)

Do PCs cause tinnitus?
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Installing NT : NTFS vs FAT
Indexing can be a big contributor to "non-stop" disk activity. If it is, stop it, then disable it. click Start | Settings | Control Panel |Administrative Tools | Services click "Stop" change the startup type to "Disabled" click "OK" Indexing is a big joke anyway. You don't need it. File searches and access speed

mingw/msys configuration change suggestion
Josh It could be the seemingly endless disk thrashing that the IDE drives undergo in my Wintel systems, regardless of how much RAM I've got stuffed into them. They get worked out more, last half as long. Anybody here got a definitive answer to this one? -el -- Diplomacy: the fine art of saying "nice doggie" while

Hard Disk Thrashing
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Endgame DVD 2nd Disc ROCKS!!
Some time after boot up (1 or 2 hours) the hard disks thrash without stopping. Eventually the thing runs out of virtual memory. Task manager just reports System Idle Processes as taking up most of the CPU time and 100% memory usage. Anybody got any clues? Cheers, Mike MacSween . Is your hard disk full.

Mini & Micro
Brian Mitchell br...@aboveaverageconsulting.com comp os linux setup 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. I suspect that it's a caching problem. Any suggestions? I have a 32 Mb RAM and a 128 Mb swap partition.

VM ShutDowns and Disk Thrashing (Re: Discriminating VM) (Re ...
I wrote two one-line programs, one a simple endless `busy loop': while(TRUE) {}; and the other a printout loop: while (TRUE) printf("a line of text %d\n" [regarding disc-thrashing with mutiple accessors] Well, there is no real solution to that problem. The only thing you can do is to use larger reads or writes.

no green light for vista
I installed my M1606 hd a few months ago. Fast ,no noise, and so far has put up with endless disk thrashing by win 95 .I chose this over a number of other drives and it was a little more money but so far I am happy ==== /\_/\ =====David de Lisle === da...@mindlink.bc.ca == ( oo ) ==== <<<<>>>> <<<<<<<<>>>>>>> > ~ <

Is a static swap file better for my PC?
keiron spit...@hotmail.com microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Fast Find will also cause the disk thrashing, as it indexes your hard drive, by default, every 2 hours, Naturally Microsoft's web site, after endless wading through surveys and natural language searches, offers no help.

Plextor Manager 1.07 and Adaptec ASPI weirdness
The program fires up and runs fine, but eventually bogs down with endless disk thrashing; warnings appear about all virtual memory being consumed. 12+ hours later the thing still is not finished. <SNIP> There is a known problem with MS FORTRAN that causes a memory after numerous file I/Os usually in a tight loop.

Huge Trade/Sale Auction..ALL The BIG T2, Big Foils, and T1!
The program fires up and runs fine, but eventually bogs down with endless disk thrashing; warnings appear about all virtual memory being consumed. 12+ hours later the thing still is not finished. He then rebooted to DOS mode under Win95, and recompiled the same exact source code with MS Fortran Version 1.0 (? not

Opera's bugs and miserable performance on non-supercomputers
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Panasonic PD1
Dr. Andreas Steiner astei...@lexiter.com alt soft-sys corel draw After a Windows crash, and subsequent uninstallation and re-installation of PhotoPaint7+, I'm getting endless disk thrashing with a 28Mb picture with 13 objects. Dave, I am not shure, but think it has to do with the preview function of the file open

FAST TRADE/SELL from Europe
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WIN98: apps slow, disk drive clicks, time lags, etc.
There was several minutes of endless disk thrashing, but no response from the keyboard or mouse. Trying to switch to a ttyv resulted in a blank screen. Despite waiting ~10 minutes after the disk thrashing stopped I resorted to the good old 3-finger salute. Checking /var/log/messages after re-booting I found: Apr 22

Spice on PC vs. Sun (part on topic, alot off topic)
... scroll to the bottom of that list and you will see what file is causing the endless indexing." In my case, this was ~/Library/Application Support/Spanning Sync/ sync.log so I added the whole Spanning Sync folder to my spotlight exclusion list. Result: far less disk thrashing & much lower cpu load.