Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:57:24 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Memory management problems in 2.4.16 |
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Daniel Tuijnman wrote:
> > 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?
Rubbish, a VM is supposed to improve, not make it impossible to run programs after an upgrade. Keeping Linux working on low memory machines is definately a big issue for the VM I'm developing and I suspect it's near the top of Andrea's list too...
> No I haven't. Was the older VM better, then? Sorry to put it so blunt, > but if it can't swap out unneeded data, it is broken.
> 2. My first Linux experience was on a P60 with 8MB of memory, 16MB swap. > I ran X and used TeX on my 300p. Ph.D. thesis, and that ran fine. > So why should I need more to get less?
Absolutely agreed, the thing should just work.
If you have the time, you could try my latest -rmap patch, available at:
http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-11a
I've done some testing with 'mem=9m' (using a rather fat kernel w/ profiling) and it seems to work decently.
regards,
Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
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