Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16T19:39:53Z

In article <E15igmC-0005bs-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Yep, that was me. It was frustrating to have to double the RAM in the
>> machine and then turn off swap. The extra RAM did help, but it really
>> only delayed the problem.
>
>That shouldnt be needed with at least the later -ac kernels - nor is the
>swap > twice ram rule present in those

Nor has it been present in the standard kernels since 2.4.8.

Linus