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DateThu, 24 Jan 2002 15:35:33 -0200 (BRST)
FromRik van Riel <>
SubjectRe: 2.4.16
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Wakko Warner wrote:

> recent 2.4 kernels seem to love eating away at memory.  After 2 weeks of
> uptime, 2.2.19 would normally consume about 120mb of ram and maybe 1mb of
> swap.  With 2.4.16 it's more than doubled.  Swap usage is 128mb, memory
> useage about 230mb.  Nothing is different between what I ran with 2.2 and
> what I run now with 2.4.

There are known issues with memory management in the main 2.4
kernel.

If you have the time, could you please try my -rmap VM or
andrea's -aa kernel ?

(available from http://surriel.com/patches/ and kernel.org
respectively)

kind regards,

Rik
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