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From: "Matthew D. Pitts" <mpitts@suite224.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:52:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003901c1ce0e$e5c15040$b0d3fea9@pcs686> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020316190415.38CE14E534@mail.vnsecurity.net> <E16mLFj-000794-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020317053624.GD23938@matchmail.com>

L-K developers,

What is the recomended amount of swap if you have a PC with 384 MB ram?

Matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: <MrChuoi@yahoo.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1


> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:58:11PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > SwapTotal:       65528 kB
> > > SwapFree:        65528 kB
> > > Committed_AS:    57252 kB
> >
> > Ok at this point you have 64Mb of free swap, and at worse (absolutely
worst
> > pure theory) have 57Mb committed
> >
> > > LowTotal:       126856 kB
> > > SwapTotal:       65528 kB
> > > SwapFree:        63324 kB
> > > Committed_AS:   226160 kB
> >
> > So you have 128Mb of RAM, 64Mb of swap, and if all pages are touched you
> > would need 226Mb of swap + ram (minus kernel overhead). Looks like the
> > machine is hovering on the edge
> >
>
> In Other Words (IOW), add more swap like everyone else said.
>
> The rmap design does use a bit more memory (about 400k for 128MB ram) for
> the reverse mapping tables, so that could push you over into an OOM case.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-17 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-15  1:42 Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 Alan Cox
2002-03-16  2:44 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-16  5:33 ` MrChuoi
2002-03-16  6:00   ` J Sloan
2002-03-16  7:52     ` MrChuoi
2002-03-16 17:30     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 17:50       ` MrChuoi
2002-03-16 18:00         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 19:14           ` MrChuoi
2002-03-16 20:58             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-17  5:36               ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-17 23:52                 ` Matthew D. Pitts [this message]
2002-03-18  0:01                   ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18  3:02                 ` MrChuoi
2002-03-18  3:01                   ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18  3:03                     ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19  1:46                       ` MrChuoi
2002-03-18 11:44                   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-18 21:23                     ` toon
2002-03-19  1:39                     ` MrChuoi
2002-03-19  1:55                       ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19  5:54                       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-19  6:20                         ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-19  6:46                           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-19 13:32                         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 18:04                           ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-19 18:26                             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 18:29                               ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-21  5:11                                 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-21 13:32                                   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-18  5:24 ` Mike Fedyk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-17 13:55 jarmo kettunen
2002-03-17 17:23 ` Alan Cox

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