[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

[Jonathan Miller]

What kernel are you running? Are you running these drives in UDMA
mode? 

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Jonathan                                     "Thinking corrupts the mind."


On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, gin wrote:

> I recently built a 128 MB Celeron 500 with a 6 Gig drive. It has a 
> SuperMicro motherboard. Everything went fine. I built another one, but used 
> a 20 Gig drive. It doesn't work quite right. From my estimation, it locks 
> the moment it has to page memory out. This was brought to my attention when 
> I compiled MySQL. There is a point at which memory becomes scarce upon 
> compiling a file called "sql_lyacc.cc." The little machine (6 Gig) does it 
> fine (takes a while - 30 sec or so). The 20 Gig machine locks. I have 128 
> MB swap partitions on both.
> 
> The hard drive is on the primary IDE controller, while the CDROM is on the 
> secondary (because the machine has a 2U chassis and the hard drive is too 
> far away from the CDROM to use the same IDE cable, and Radio Shack only had 
> IDE cables, not extensions so I took what I could get). It seems like it is 
> the hard drive. But what?
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions? Is the hard drive just too slow?
> 
> 
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