From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:27:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030927182730.GA5315@k3.hellgate.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F75D35C.9040609@softhome.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-27 18:27 UTC|newest]
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2003-09-27 18:13 ` [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-27 18:27 ` Roger Luethi [this message]
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2003-09-27 19:59 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-27 20:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-27 20:25 ` Roger Luethi
2003-09-29 5:02 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-29 5:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-27 20:21 ` Roger Luethi
2003-09-28 13:06 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-28 15:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
2003-09-28 17:21 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-28 17:31 ` Mikulas Patocka
2003-09-28 17:54 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-28 18:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-28 17:33 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-09-28 17:57 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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