Re: 2.1.92(16MB) swap death
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 19:00:16 +0100 (BST)
> 2.1.92 is about as bad as pre-2.1.92-2 on my 16MB system. I
> commented out the "raising capabilites" message in fs/exec.c and
> tried:
> (1) compiling init/main.c -- no problem
> (2) starting X and compiling from an xterm -- no problem
> (3) starting top in another xterm and compiling --
> cached went down from 5548K to about 1024K
> free stayed about 1024K
> after a minute, screen froze
> 20 minutes later I gave up and hit reset
>
> Is there any point in my going through this exercise?
This roughly matches my 8Mb box. On 32Mb 2.1.92 feels a bit better but has
the odd disk frenzy, on the 8Mb box its as bad as 2.1.90/91 etc. I tried
booting it on my 4Mb Zenith 386SX20 for a joke.
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