Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load

[Roger Luethi]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:13:48 +0200, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
> Roger Luethi wrote:
> >On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:26:34 +1000, Jason Lewis wrote:
> >>0 12      0   3424    816   6008    0    0 19712     0 5519  3184  0 12  
> >>0 87
> >
> >          ^^^^
> >Looks like you don't have swap enabled. Are successful 2.4 runs with or
> >without swap?
> >
> 
>    I'm running RH stock 2.4.20-20.9 without swap for around month.
>    OOo, Mozilla, eDonkey & heaps of xterms. Even evaluation of VMware 
> with Win2K inside was Ok.
>    On average: much better experience.

Better than with swap? Or better than 2.6?

> $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        513872     507128       6744          0      32784     341404

The initial post was about a 48 MB machine. 10% of what you have. The
poster's system is paging like crazy -- since all dirty pages without a
mapping are pinned in memory, it must shuffle around the rest.

Roger
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