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Subject: Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
>    Sorry, I even marked $subject as [OT].
>    I'm answering the question '2.4 without swap' - Yes. It is. Works. 
> No  problems.
>    <rant>'Paging like crazy' became for me a synonym of Linux. It 
> doesn't matter how much memory you have. Less == worse. Developers 
> stopped testing VMM regression on low-memory computers long time ago. 
> <sarcasm>We have now fashion for clusters and numas. And a lot of swap 
> on very fast raids. <sarcasm size=+100%>After all it is cheap. Just 
> couple of thousands greenbacks. </sarcasm> </sarcasm> It was really 
> funny when developers on LKML were sugesting to buy another hdd for 
> swap. Very funny.</rant>
>    Unfortunately I'm not a specialist in VMM...
>    As I see there is not that much edge case testing going around.

It's known what has to be done for it. AFAICT upstream doesn't like
the answers and just says "throw hardware at it". I've written it off
as a lost cause, though I was at one time interested.


-- wli