Messages in this thread | | | From | Vincent Stemen <> | Date | Tue, 29 May 2001 15:09:54 -0500 | Subject | Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM... (and 2.4.5-ac3) |
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On Tuesday 29 May 2001 10:37, elko wrote: > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 11:10, Alan Cox wrote: > > > It's not a bug. It's a feature. It only breaks systems that are run > > > w= ith "too > > > little" swap, and the only difference from 2.2 till now is, that the > > > de= finition > > > of "too little" changed. > > > > its a giant bug. Or do you want to add 128Gb of unused swap to a full > > kitted out Xeon box - or 512Gb to a big athlon ??? > > this bug is biting me too and I do NOT like it ! > > if it's a *giant* bug, then why is LK-2.4 called a *stable* kernel ??
This has been my complaint ever since the 2.2.0 kernel. I did not see a reasonably stable release until 2.2.12. I do not understand why code with such serious reproducible problems is being introduced into the even numbered kernels. What happened to the plan to use only the odd numbered kernels for debugging and refinement of the code? I never said anything because I thought the the kernel developers would eventually get back on track after the mistakes of the 2.2.x kernels but it has been years now and it still has not happened. I do not wish sound un-appreciative to those that have put so much wonderful work into the Linux kernel but this is the same thing we criticize Microsoft for. Putting out production code that obviously is not ready. Please lets not earn the same reputation of such commercial companies.
By the way, The 2.4.5-ac3 kernel still fills swap and runs out of memory during my morning NFS incremental backup. I got this message in the syslog.
May 29 06:39:15 (none) kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 23502 (xteevee).
For some reason xteevee is commonly the process that gets killed. My understanding is that it is part of Xscreensaver, but it was during my backup.
This was the output of 'free' after I got up and found the swap completely full. By that time the memory was in a reasonable state but the swap space is still never being released.
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 255960 220668 35292 292 110960 80124 -/+ buffers/cache: 29584 226376 Swap: 40124 40112 12
Configuration ------------- AMD K6-2/450 256Mb RAM 2.4.5-ac3 Kernel compiled with egcs-1.1.2.
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