Sreangsu Acharyya wrote:
> A search on lkml however showed up a possible hardware bug in ide/udma
> implementation.
DMA works. I have been using it for a while. No problem or I may be excessively
lucky..;-)
> There are a couple of more caveats like integrated sound and nic card not
> working ( some work around seems to exist). But its the data corruption
After reading latest skirmish for 2.4.x VM on /. and bytes.com I seriously doubt
about 2.4 kernels. Let these guys decide what they call stable.
Did I mention population inversion here? I ran into a situation when I had 70MB
of physical memory and 70 MB of swap was in use. My machine has 128MB RAM. After
that point, for every app. loaded, usae of physical memory remain constant to
70MB but swap was going linearly up. i.e. roles of swap and physical memory were
swapped..;-) One can imagine the performance in that case...
A good way to come out of swap is to help kernel. You load staroffice and your
machine swaps crazily. OK. Here is the solution.
Run free.
Close staroffice
Run free
Rn another program say xterm
Once again run free.
You will see how you can help kernel..-) Especially helpful if you have excess
of 50MB of swap in use. I had it yesterday. I was running
konqueror*2+netscape*2+mozilla+galeon+abiword+kword+openoffice...;-)
Shridhar
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