From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.4 VM & swap question
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:48:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010617104836.B11642@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
'lo all. I've got a question about swap and RAM requirements in 2.4. Now,
when 2.4.0 was kicked out, the fact that you need swap=2xRAM was mentioned.
But what I'm wondering is what exactly are the limits on this. Right now
I've got an x86 box w/ 128ram and currently 256swap. When I had 128, I'd get
low on ram/swap after some time in X, and doing this seems to 'fix' it, in
2.4.4. However, I've also got 2 PPC boxes, both with 256:256 in 2.4. One
of which never has X up, but lots of other activity, and swap usage seems
to be about the same as 2.2.x (right now 'free' says i'm ~40MB into swap,
18day+ uptime). The other box is a laptop and has X up when it's awake and
that too doesn't seem to have any problem. So what exactly is the real
minium swap ammount?
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
next reply other threads:[~2001-06-17 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-17 17:48 Tom Rini [this message]
2001-06-17 18:58 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-06-17 19:06 ` Tom Rini
2001-06-17 21:43 ` alterity
2001-06-17 19:12 ` Dan Podeanu
2001-06-17 19:20 ` Tom Rini
2001-06-17 19:31 ` Dan Podeanu
2001-06-17 19:33 ` Tom Rini
2001-06-18 11:21 root
2001-06-19 5:30 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-19 6:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-19 7:37 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-19 7:36 ` Steve Kieu
2001-06-19 8:13 ` Mike Galbraith
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