Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:49:18 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: highmem=system killer, 2.2.17=performance killer ? |
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:42:36 +0100 Klaus Meyer <k.meyer@m3its.de> wrote:
> As I just took a look on the output of cat /proc/meminfo i got the idea > that i'll increase the pysical swap space. (136M before that means > > highmem). > astonishing (using Suse kernel 2.4.16): after an increase to 2GB swap > and > using 1,5GB of mem the system runs quit a longer time with a good > performance, > but starting the copy process leads also to a slow down of the machine. > Finally i could see that kupdated is suffering.
I was already tempted to suggest you turn off swap completely, as 136 MB in a 2 GB box are somehow useless anyways. I know, I have the same setup (256MB swap). As this could work without boot, willing to give it a try? Anyway I would very much suggest to use -pre3.
Regards, Stephan
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