Re: 2.4-pre5 especially susceptible to memory overload?
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:24:22AM -0400, dochawk@psu.edu wrote:
>
> I have had more system hangs in the last two weeks than in the last four
> years put together . . . (OK, so that make s 2 :)
>
> The first incident was loading (well, attempting to load) an excessively
> large file into beav (a binary file editor). 1G file, 160Mb memory.
>
> It ran out of memory, and eventually stopped swapping. This was repeatable.
...
Don't know about the memory issue, but have you thought about going to the
2.4.0pre9 kernel? I believe that is considered the best, latest stable one.
A mere 22Mb+... :) (overnight DL works well!)
Kenward
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