Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac9

[Josh McKinney]

On approximately Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:55:01PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > 2.4.7-ac9
> 
> > o	Allow swap < 2*ram				(Rik van Riel)
> 
> ... which I have verified to be functional, on SMP,
> but still isn't fine-tuned.
> 
> It would be cool if people with smallish swap areas
> could test this patch to see if any extra tuning would
> be needed.
> 
> regards,

have 256M of ram and I set 120M swap.  Then opened up 
about 30 mozilla windows, compiled several kernels at
once, gimp etc.  Swap went to zero and mem just hovered
at about 3056K free, but still useable and able to kill
of processes and bring it back.