Re: swap and 2.1.128 dev kernel

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

cfm@maine.com writes:

> I've just jumped from the 2.0 series to 2.1.128 with latest
> debian everything and pretty well purged of libc5 binaries.
> 
> I'm having difficulties with swap.  Machines with 128Mb RAM are
> 10+Mb into swap, thrashing like crazy, and leaving 30Mb or so
> free RAM.  When I swapoff load goes down from 4+ to under .10.
> So I'm running without swap at the moment on those machines....
> 
> Has anyone else seen/solved this?

Alls I know is that I had been running 2.1.125 for a while with no
problems, then I tried 2.1.128, and I had to revert back to 2.1.125
because 128 would thrash swap for no good reason all the time.

So you're not the only one.

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