Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

["Gary White (Network Administrator)" <admin@netpathway.com>]

Hmm,

I have no problems either.

Asus KT7 KT133 Chipset

root@station2-lnx:~# uname -a
Linux station2-lnx 2.4.6 #10 Thu Jul 5 11:08:39 CDT 2001 i686 unknown
root@station2-lnx:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        512944     509888       3056          0      32140     417532
-/+ buffers/cache:      60216     452728
Swap:      1100444          0    1100444

> 
> > Can someone please
> > point out to me
> > that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with
> > more than 128
> > MB RAM and that he's NOT having severe stability problems?
> > And can that same person PLEASE point out to me why 2.4.x is
> > crashing on
> > me (or help me to find out...)?
> 
> %uname -a
> Linux cartman 2.4.0-64GB-SMP #1 SMP Wed Jan 24 15:52:30 GMT 2001 i686
> unknown
> %uptime
>  8:35am  up 57 days, 12:42,  2 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
> %free
>              total      used      free      shared      buffers      cached
> Mem:        254904    251968      2936           0        92224       45028
> -/+ buffers/cache:    114716    140188
> Swap:       524656     14192    510464
> 
> Could this be a 2.4 swap issue. You NEED at least RAM x2 swap. If you're
> just adding memory to
> a box that's stable with 128 megs and possibly 256 megs swap (you don't
> state, just guessing..)
> you've now got too little swap, and boom, stability goes bye-bye.
> 
> Just haven't seen the swap issue mentioned this thread...
> 
> =Don=
> 
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