>> VERY jerky behaviour.
>
>I'll check it out, right after the weekend...
Something is sure wrong in 2.1.91 mm.
I am sure all of you are developing mm stuff have 64Mbyte of ram or more
since with 32Mbyte (or less) when the system begin to need a lot of memory
it hang. All process running are swapped out (the same problem of 2.1.89
if I remember well, this was fixed in 2.1.90) too so there is the maximum
of page_faults and all became unusable. The process that run forever is
kswapd. All other process are sleeping all the time. This continued for 15
minutes and then I resetted.
Using the system after `swapoff -a` make all working very more responsive
except when the memory squezee and last the procees that alloced memory is
not killed (returning segfault) but the machine hang as in the case
before. I proved it running `swapoff -a; startx;` and then trying to start
emacs. After that I had to reset.
I suggest mm hackers to start the kernel with mem=30m or less.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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