From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:56:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:56:28 -0400 Received: from mail.digitalme.com ([193.97.97.75]:53418 "EHLO digitalme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:56:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3B16CC23.1020202@digitalme.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:56:35 -0400 From: "Trever L. Adams" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010529 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.4.5 VM In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >>My system has 128 Meg of Swap and RAM. >> > > Linus 2.4.0 notes are quite clear that you need at least twice RAM of swap > with 2.4. > > Marcelo is working to change that but right now you are running something > explicitly explained as not going to work as you want > > Alan, Actually I have tried 1x,2x,3x. In 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 I had some issues but never a system freeze of any kind. With 2.4.4 I had more problems, but I was ok. 2.4.5 I now have these freezes. Maybe I should go back to 2x, but I still find this behavior crazy. This still doesn't negate the point of freeing simple caches. Trever Adams