> Almost all 2.2.17pre patches had changes in VM.
> In my tests, 2.2.17pre8 seems to be pretty stable.
>
> Could you please try to run your big processes in 2.2.17pre8 and report
> us results?
FWIW, i see really bad performance in 2.2.17pre8 when i'm using almost
all the real memory (128MB, with 128MB swap, but also seen with
additional 256MB swap). i'm not sure how to diagnose the problem
better than 'it spends a lot of time churning the disk'...
ian
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