Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2002 01:48:55 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Problems with VM |
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On 20020215 Alan Cox wrote: >> as 'normal' ran. Consequently, I will have a machine that has 5M >> 'normal' RAM, 800M 'cache' RAM and the reset coming out of swap space. >> I need this 'cache' RAM placed back into the available RAM pool to be >> used by applications. Is there a patch/kernel configuration that I can >> change this behavior? > >2.4.18-rc1 should fix the worst of that. The rmap patches in 2.4.18-ac >definitely fix it >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Or oyu can try the next patch from Andrea Arcangeli for the vm, still to include in mainline. I have adapted it to apply cleanly on plain 2.4.18-rc1:
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/2.4.18-rc1-slb1/00-vm-24.gz
-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.18-rc1-slb1 #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 01:04:12 CET 2002 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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