[CLUE-Tech] memory

[Dave Hahn]

In 2.4.10 the Andrea's new VM system was integrated and Rik's was
removed.  This caused quite a few problems, similar to those listed, and
wasn't taken care of until about 2.4.15 or so.

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 19:50, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

    I only read about these second hand, but I assumes they meant something
    like that.  The real problem seems to have been a nasty cylce wherein
    everthing starts to get swapped out to disk, and then need swapped back
    in, but then gets swapped back out...
    
    I never experienced this, though, so that is all second hand from me.
    
    Tim
    * Adam_Bultman at gmx.net (Adam_Bultman at gmx.net) wrote:
    > 
    > > 
    > > There were some trouble in VM performance in the early 2.4 kernels which
    > > could lead to swap storms, but these seem to have been fixed in the
    > > latest 2.4 kernels.
    > > 
    > >
    > 
    > By swap storms, do you mean when you'd use very little ram, but tons of
    > swap?  I swear, the last kernel I had on my slackware box (2.4.9 or 12, I think)
    > would push EVERYTHING into swap.  I'd use very little memory, but swap would
    > be full.
    > 
    > adam
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