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On Tuesday 29 May 2001 00:10, Jakob Østergaard wrote:

> > > Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
> > > buff
> > > Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K
> > > cached
> > >
> > > Vanilla 2.4.5 VM.

> It's not a bug.  It's a feature.  It only breaks systems that are run with
> "too little" swap, and the only difference from 2.2 till now is, that the
> definition of "too little" changed.


Sorry but if ~250MB is too little ... it _is_ a bug.   I think everyone would 
agree that 250MB of swap in use is far far far too much.  If this is a 
feature, it is one nobody would want.