Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:00:05 +1000 | From | monkeyiq <> |
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Hi, Please CC me as Im not on the list atm.
I had moved from using 2.4.5 to using the Alan Cox tree but had recently moved back to raw 2.4.9. In doing this I noticed that the VM in the Linus standard tree seems to chomp heaps of RAM for cache and not give it back. This is a very painful thing having 200Mb showing in free as cached and 150Mb in swap, with 4Mb free. It means that I must play games to get enough RAM free to play a DVD without jerkyness of paging.
To keep this email short, I want to play with XFS and I want to have a machine that is not paging whenever I move the mouse, If anyone knows of patches for XFS for recent ac kernels I'l love to know. And if anyone has info on tuneing the VM to not hoard all the memory in standard trees I'd like to know.
Also my special internet keys didn't work on the ac tree from my USB keyboard but using the same .config work fine in 2.4.9 anyone experienced a similar thing? This is with vmlinuz-2.4.7-ac9 and some 2.4.8-ac kernels that I've tried.
Thanks, and sorry if these are pesky FAQs, but I couldn't find much in the archive search about these, well, the first two anyway :/.
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