I've seen some later updates to the VM, but at the moment, the 2.4.8 kernel
is working well for me. Better than the 2.4.6 kernel.
-----Original Message-----
From: eric@frodo.biederman.org [mailto:eric@frodo.biederman.org]On
Behalf Of Eric W. Biederman
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:43 PM
To: Kevin Krieser
Cc: Linux Kernel List
Subject: Re: Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory
As long as you don't have problems where you can't run your program
multiple times in a row, 2.4 sounds like is is behaving correctly and
sanely.
> However, since my normal behavior is for swap to not be used, I will wait
a
> little bit for some of the VM updates to be tested.
Are you saying something is wrong?
> I don't have 2X RAM because when I installed my system, I only had 256MB
of
> RAM.
This is not a requirement but is a requirement to have swap > mem if
you are swapping heavily and want good performance.
Eric
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