Re: [Sheflug] RE: 2.4 kernel VM issues.

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  Currently I'm running 1Gb swap and 256Mb physical memory, and everything has
> been running sweetly.
>  kswapd is maybe using 1% if not less. (Can't check - using Windoze machine at
> work at the moment).

Try stressing the VM some. The best stress test known to man is
Netscape. If that can't use all your memory up you're looking at the wrong
porn^H^H^H^H website. Try a bit of gnome too.

With 128Mb of physical and 256Mb of virtual I can get into swap pretty
easily and it thrashes pretty madly. And doesn't seem to flush pages
right. Purely anecdotal of course, I haven't had much time to look at it.


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