[Fwd: Plain 2.4.5 VM... (and 2.4.5-ac3)]

[Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@ucla.edu>]

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Here is a message from Steve Kieu that he couldn't get through...
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Einstein did not prove that everything is relative.
Einstein explained how the speed of light could be constant.
Benjamin Redelings I      <><     http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~bredelin/

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From: "Steve Kieu" <haiquy@yahoo.com>
To: Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM... (and 2.4.5-ac3)
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:21:09 +1000 (EST)
Message-ID: <20010531212109.86230.qmail@web10407.mail.yahoo.com>


Just add my experience here...

I use up to 2.4.4 and it is fine ; swap usage increase
much but only in 2.4.5-acx IMHO it is because Alan did
some changes?

test with staroffice 5.1 in 35Mb RAM 32M swap 100Mhz 
just start staroffice and check, then exit check

kernel		usage	usage when exit	  time (sec)
2.4.4-pre4	2.5M	2.5M		   48
2.4.4		2.0M	2.0M		   48
2.4.5		3.5M	3.5M		   49
2.4.5-ac1	7.9M	7.9M		   49		

In 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-pre4 I noticed the kernel DID free
swap when it needs. For example when I ran netscape
for a while typing email in a web mail form (that way
netscape will make memory leak) swap usage sometimes
17M. Quit netscape it reduced to about 12M; of course
leave a lot free memory). Start netscape again SWAP
REDUCED TO about 2M , just a bit bigger at the fisrt
time I start netscape.

Steve

--- Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@ucla.edu> wrote: >
Vincent Stemen wrote:
>  > The problem is, that's not true.  These problems
> are not slipping
>  > through because of lack of testers.
> 	Just to add some sanity to this thread, I have been
> using the 2.4.x 
> kernels ever since they came out, on my personal
> workstation and on some 
> workstations that I administrate for fellow students
> in my department 
> here at UCLA.  They have basically worked fine for
> me.  They are not 
> perfect, but many of the 2.4.x releases have been a
> big improvement over 
> the 2.2.x releases.  For one, 2.4.x actually can
> tell which pages are 
> not used, and swap out unused daemons, which helps a
> lot on a 64Mb box :)
> 	
> -BenR
> -- 
> Einstein did not prove that everything is relative.
> Einstein explained how the speed of light could be
> constant.
> Benjamin Redelings I      <><    
> http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~bredelin/
> 
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