From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:36:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:36:23 -0400 Received: from pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.19.3]:31763 "EHLO pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:36:08 -0400 Message-Id: <200109211435.f8LEZnAB032156@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> To: lgb@lgb.hu cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 In-Reply-To: Message from =?iso-8859-2?B?R+Fib3IgTOlu4XJ0?= of "Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:29:50 +0200." <20010921162950.C16173@vega.digitel2002.hu> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:35:48 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org =?iso-8859-2?B?R+Fib3IgTOlu4XJ0?= said: [...] > Maybe not since I'm not using swap :) The rule is (well at least it was ...) > for 2.4.x desktop systems: buy 256Mb of RAM (and disable swapping at all), > it's cheap ... and after that you will be able to use 2.4.x instead of 2.2.x > quite well. Strange... I've been running 2.4's for a long time (mostly -ac ones) on 64Mb and 128Mb. No problems. [If you have a laptop, the extra RAM is not "cheap"...] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Usuario #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513