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From: Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:36:53
Message-Id: 4BAD28C6.408@ep.mine.nu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load by Daniel Quinn
1 On 26/03/10 20:47, Daniel Quinn wrote:
2 > I don't know why it's happening. I've tried various kernel options with no
3 > change in behaviour. Outside of that though, I don't know what to try.
4 > Suggestions welcome :-(
5 >
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7 It sounds very much to me like a lack of physical memory and your
8 system is resorting to the swap partition. What does free report?
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11 Be lucky,
12
13 Neil
14 http://www.neiljw.net/
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