Re: 2.4.5 VM

[David Rees]

I don't know myself, (it sounds like other bigmem problems), but setting up a
2GB swap file is easy enough to test.  :-)

-Dave

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:29:39AM +0200, Marcin Kowalski wrote:
> 
> I found this post of interest. I have 1.1 Gig of RAM but only 800mb of
> Swap as I expect NOT to use that much memory... Could this be the cause of
> the machines VERY erratic behaviour??? Kernel Panics, HUGE INOde and
> Dcache.... ??
> 
> On Thu, 31 May 2001 [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> > > My system has 128 Meg of Swap and RAM.
> > 
> > Linus 2.4.0 notes are quite clear that you need at least twice RAM of swap
> > with 2.4.
> > 
> > Marcelo is working to change that but right now you are running something 
> > explicitly explained as not going to work as you want