Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:27:30 +0200 | From | Roger Luethi <> | Subject | Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load |
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:13:48 +0200, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: > Roger Luethi wrote: > >On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:26:34 +1000, Jason Lewis wrote: > >>0 12 0 3424 816 6008 0 0 19712 0 5519 3184 0 12 > >>0 87 > > > > ^^^^ > >Looks like you don't have swap enabled. Are successful 2.4 runs with or > >without swap? > > > > I'm running RH stock 2.4.20-20.9 without swap for around month. > OOo, Mozilla, eDonkey & heaps of xterms. Even evaluation of VMware > with Win2K inside was Ok. > On average: much better experience.
Better than with swap? Or better than 2.6?
> $ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513872 507128 6744 0 32784 341404
The initial post was about a 48 MB machine. 10% of what you have. The poster's system is paging like crazy -- since all dirty pages without a mapping are pinned in memory, it must shuffle around the rest.
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