Re: 2.4 VM & swap question

[Steve Kieu]

Just an information for you to compare, now I am
running the kernel compile from mandrake 80; version
2.4.3-20mdk on a 
machine Intel celeron 400Mhz 128M RAM, i810 graphic
card (it will use some memory) ; runing together
Star Office 5.2, Netscape 4.77, Mozilla (shiped with
LM80), compiling alsa driver and you may guess how
much swap it used?

[sk@steve sk]$ free
             total       used       free     shared   
buffers     cached
Mem:        126108     124416       1692          0   
    604      51820
-/+ buffers/cache:      71992      54116
Swap:        72288          0      72288

Okay I dont have any other *bloated* software to run
and try to crash it :-)

The same situation when I ran 2.4.5-acx (try all with
13, 14, 15) swap usage is about 45Mb and it is
increasing by the time). After typing a while in
netscpae email form , netscape eats memory gradually
(or the kernel?) swap ran out and the machine went to
deadlock even without thrashing)

But now it is NOT increasing ( I am typing in yahoo
mail from netscape too) , the system is up for about 3
days.

Regards,

--- Mike Galbraith <[e-mail]> wrote: > On
Mon, 18 Jun 2001, root wrote:
> 
> > Regarding to the discussion on the swap size,
> >
> > Recently, Rick van Riel posted a message that
> there is a bug
> > related to "reclaiming" the swap, and said that it
> is on his
> > TODO list.
> 
> That's fixed.
> 
> > If I believe it, the current trouble we have
> regarding to the swap
> > size is not because we do not have a sufficient
> size for the swap,
> > but because there is a bug, although Linus advised
> us to assign
> > 2 times the physical memory for the swap.
> 
> Please try 2.4.6.pre3.  (folks with various load
> types should do this
> and report results.. even if it generates a brief
> spurt of traffic).
> 
> 	-Mike
> 
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S.KIEU

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