On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:31:23PM -0800, David Irvine wrote: > > Basically the VM in 2.4 is broke. No in fact it is > REALLY broke but its getting better. Basically you > will find that without double your ram as swap space > bad things will happen with regards to swapping. > However you have 320mb of ram, do you really need > swap? > ... > little faster since the vm attempts to swap out as > much as possible to keep as much ram free as possible > This works very well in some respects as when you have > a machine running lots of seperate applications such > as a windowing system with lots of windows inactive > they get swapped out. Its bad however when you have to > wait for an application to get swapped in again. > > HTH > > David >
Are you talking exclusively about 2.4 kernels with respect to swapping out stuff? It certainly used to be that Linux used as much RAM as possible for caching data, and whenever I've checked lately it still seems to be the case. Mind you I've got machines with 128 and 256M RAM, so I never get to a situation where swap is needed. What bugs me more is Win2K, which still insists on a file, rather than a partition/volume. -- I'm Keyser Soze...I'm Keyser Soze...I'm Keyser Soze and so's my wife! (Monty Python plays The Usual Suspects) -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
