From: Josh McKinney <forming@home.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac9
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:32:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010807223218.A6755@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010807235302.A16178@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108072218370.17803-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108072218370.17803-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
On approximately Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:55:01PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 2.4.7-ac9
>
> > o Allow swap < 2*ram (Rik van Riel)
>
> ... which I have verified to be functional, on SMP,
> but still isn't fine-tuned.
>
> It would be cool if people with smallish swap areas
> could test this patch to see if any extra tuning would
> be needed.
>
> regards,
>From my smallish tests with ac9 it works quite well. I
have 256M of ram and I set 120M swap. Then opened up
about 30 mozilla windows, compiled several kernels at
once, gimp etc. Swap went to zero and mem just hovered
at about 3056K free, but still useable and able to kill
of processes and bring it back.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-08 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-07 22:53 Linux 2.4.7-ac9 Alan Cox
2001-08-08 1:55 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-08 3:32 ` Josh McKinney [this message]
2001-08-09 19:24 ` Linux 2.4.7-ac9 (breaks ATM connect) Sampsa Ranta
2001-08-09 19:27 ` Sampsa Ranta
2001-08-09 20:30 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-09 20:52 ` Chris Friesen
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