On 20010615 Alexander Skwar wrote:
>So sprach Fluri Dave am Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:26:34PM -0400:
>> Well, that's not what that posting says to me. Alan Cox's posting at the
>> bottom refers to the fact that one needs _at_ _least_ 2x RAM in swap.
>
>Just to be certain:
>
>SWAP >= 2xRAM, ie. at least 512 MB Swap when you have 256 MB RAM
>
>That's what you're saying?
>
>That's right, and that's how I understood him as well. I wanted to express,
>that DrakX should warn in *BIG* red letters, when the user does a setup
>where SWAP < 2xRAM.
>
DO NOT DO THAT. It is addmitted that the 2x rule is due to a BUG in kernel
pager, but you do not notice it until you stress your system to the end.
And the complaint about 2.4.x VM behaviour has been so great in the Linux
Kernel Mailing List that is a priority work now. There are some patches
that begin to correct that behaviour, latest 2.4.6-pre3 has some added,
and 2.4.5-ac14 has other tries. So the 2x rule will be invalidated probably
for 2.4.6.
I do not use Mandrake kernel packages, so I do not know which preX or acX
matches latest mdk kernel. But when it includes pre3 for example you
will not need that 2x sawp rule.
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