| Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:37:14 -0400 | From | Derek Glidden <> | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps |
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Bill Pringlemeir wrote: > > [snip] > Derek> overwhelmed. On the system I'm using to write this, with > Derek> 512MB of RAM and 512MB of swap, I run two copies of this > > Please see the following message on the kernel mailing list, > > 3086:Linus 2.4.0 notes are quite clear that you need at least twice RAM of swap > Message-Id: <E155bG5-0008AX-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Yes, I'm aware of this.
However, I still believe that my original problem report is a BUG. No matter how much swap I have, or don't have, and how much is or isn't being used, running "swapoff" and forcing the VM subsystem to reclaim unused swap should NOT cause my machine to feign death for several minutes.
I can easily take 256MB out of this machine, and then I *will* have twice as much swap as RAM and I can still cause the exact same behaviour.
It's a bug, and no number of times saying "You need twice as much swap as RAM" will change that fact.
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