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Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:12:43 -0400
From: jlnance@intrex.net
To: roy@karlsbakk.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:11:24PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> Starting up 30 downloads from a custom HTTP server (or Tux - or Apache - 
> doesn't matter), file size is 3-6GB, download speed = ~4.5Mbps. After some 
> time the kernel (a) goes bOOM (out of memory) if not having any swap, or (b) 
> goes gong swapping out anything it can.

Does this work if the client and the server are on the same machine?  It
would make reproducing this a lot easier if it only required 1 machine.

Thanks,

Jim