From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out.tiscali.be (spoolo2.tiscali.be [62.235.13.211]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93E94829 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:35:16 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3EE25DEC.1040105@tiscali.be> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:49:32 +0000 From: Joel Soete MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Grabert" Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: compiler & kernel (2) Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: M. Grabert wrote: >On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Joel Soete wrote: > > > >>I launch it on my b2k and it seems to works fine (any boot pb); I so use >>it to rebuild te same kernel with gcc-3.3. >>It also compiles well (in about 12min). >>But I notice something strange: runing a top in another xterm, I notice >>that swap was well on but absolutly not used where usually my kernel >>(near about debian std cfg) used about 20Mb of swap (with 256Mb of ram). >>Is it a wanted behaviour? (config option?) >> >> > >I don't think I can help you here, I hardly run out of physical memory >(I've 1GB RAM in my machine), but during my tests I was able to >deliberately force the machine to run out of memory and using swap. >I never see the kernel using swap on my machine at all, unless I really >want it to happen ;) > >So swap for me works, but I hardly will ever have to come into a situation >where heavy use of swap space will be required (at least I hope so). > >Max > > > > Max, I will so have a more detail look in your config. (the other server I can use is a N model with 2Mb wich I do not see used more than 1.7 Mb and so not need to swap :-) ; OTC my 256Mb (or less) boxes usualy need swap. Let see) Thanks for info, Joel PS: Do you still encounter starvation pb?