On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Dietmar Kling wrote:
> i thought i add a report to the new VM in 2.4.0pre9
>
> My Machine has 256 MB of memory
> I left it for two hours ( several Netscapes -Instances,
> Mail and xmms running _nothing in swap_ )
>
> When I tried to restart my work after 2 hours,
> the machine started swapping madly.
Does this swapping storm get less (or even go
away?) when you apply my small patch to test9-pre1?
http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t9-vmpatch
> I believe this is a tuning issue, so
> i do not complain :)
Indeed. Now that the testing base for the VM patch
has increased so much, there are a few as-of-yet
untested workloads popping up that don't perform
very well.
I'm gathering details about those workloads and
trying to fix them as best as possible.
regards,
Rik
--
"What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!"
-- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/
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