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SubjectRe: Memory management problems in 2.4.16
Hi!

> > I installed a 2.4.16 kernel on a 486DX2-50 machine with 8MB memory and
> > 24MB swap and got insurmountable problems.
>
> [snip]
>
> > It seems to me that something definitely is wrong with the kernel's
> > memory management.
>
> Well ... maybe *in theory* 2.4.16 should work on a machine with that
> little RAM but I'd say in practice Linux has simply outgrown your
> machine. Have you tried any other 2.4 kernels, say, before 2.4.10 when
> the VM changed? Have you considered going to a garage sale and spending
> the local equivalent of $25 or $30 US for a more powerful computer?

8MB should be enough. I was running 2.4.0-test7 on 8MB machine with no
swap, because it had no disk to swap to.
Pavel
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