2.4 VM & swap question
Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:48:36 -0700
'lo all. I've got a question about swap and RAM requirements in 2.4. Now,
when 2.4.0 was kicked out, the fact that you need swap=2xRAM was mentioned.
But what I'm wondering is what exactly are the limits on this. Right now
I've got an x86 box w/ 128ram and currently 256swap. When I had 128, I'd get
low on ram/swap after some time in X, and doing this seems to 'fix' it, in
2.4.4. However, I've also got 2 PPC boxes, both with 256:256 in 2.4. One
of which never has X up, but lots of other activity, and swap usage seems
to be about the same as 2.2.x (right now 'free' says i'm ~40MB into swap,
18day+ uptime). The other box is a laptop and has X up when it's awake and
that too doesn't seem to have any problem. So what exactly is the real
minium swap ammount?
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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