2.9 swap problems

[Greg Wohletz]

In article <2529 at reed.UUCP> keith at reed.UUCP (Keith Packard) writes:
>I'm trying to bring up the new 2.9 unix (ala Bostic) and was trying to test
>the swapper for a new disk handler by launching a slew of beefy processes to
>force swaps.  The program:
>
>char c [48*1024];
>main()
>{
>  for (;;);
>}
>
>I'm using an 11/73 with 1 meg and running an overlaid kernal with the networking
>code installed.  There are a goodly number of daemons present too.  The problem
>is when I reach the level where a swap is forced (about 13 of those beasts in
>the background), I get a short of swap; no more processes error.  My swap device
>is about 2 meg, so there should be no problem.  This is with the RL02 handler.
>Even killing these background beasts refuses to allow me to start any new
>processes.  I tried this out on the old 2.9 release with no problems.
>	Anyone run into this kind of trouble?
	Yes, as a matter of fact we have the same problem with our 11/44
	running the seismo/css 2.9.  If you find any solutions let me know.
							--Greg Wohletz
							seismo!unrvax!unlv!greg