[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

gin gin at driver8.net
Mon Feb 7 23:07:44 CST 2000


Just started reading the UDMA HowTo. Looks like my drive - a Western 
Digital - is among the "blacklisted" drives.

At 08:23 PM 2/7/00 -0600, you wrote:
>What kernel are you running? Are you running these drives in UDMA
>mode?
>
>--
>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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