> recent 2.4 kernels seem to love eating away at memory. After 2 weeks of
> uptime, 2.2.19 would normally consume about 120mb of ram and maybe 1mb of
> swap. With 2.4.16 it's more than doubled. Swap usage is 128mb, memory
> useage about 230mb. Nothing is different between what I ran with 2.2 and
> what I run now with 2.4.
There are known issues with memory management in the main 2.4
kernel.
If you have the time, could you please try my -rmap VM or
andrea's -aa kernel ?
(available from http://surriel.com/patches/ and kernel.org
respectively)
kind regards,
Rik
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