Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac16

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Dec 20 2004 - 10:55:15 EST


On Sad, 2004-12-18 at 15:06, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Andrea's fix and the selection changes should go into 2.6.10, but I
> >> suspect that the VM gurus havent still reached a point, where they
> >> agree. I also have the feeling that the problem is partially ignored.
> >> Obviously has everybody plenty of memory in his boxes. </rant off>
>
> Well you can always take out your VMware and cut it down to <few RAM> MB by
> hand, just to get an experience how "low-end" users feel.

Or boot with mem=. I actually do test runs with -ac on a 128Mb box with
about 16Mb of that stolen as video ram. 2.6.9 isn't behaving perfectly
but seems reasonably ok for most loads except brokenoffice

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