Re: kernel 2.4.17 with -rmap VM patch ROCKS!!!

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 16:04:01 EST


Anish Srivastava wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I installed kernel 2.4.17 on my SMP server with 8CPU's and 8GB RAM
> and lets just say that whenever the entire physical memory was utilised
> the box would topple over...with kswapd running a havoc on CPU utilization
> So to avoid losing control I had to reboot every 8 hours.
>

The fact that the current stable version of the Linux kernel
can only achieve an eight-hour uptime on this class of machine
is a fairly serious problem, don't we all agree?

We need a fix for 2.4.18.

Did you test the -aa patches?

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