Re: Linux-2.0.34 & crashme

Jim Wilcoxson (jim@meritnet.com)
Wed, 27 May 1998 10:48:59 -0700

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At 02:20 PM 5/27/98 +0000, Krzysztof Strasburger wrote:
>>> Do you have swap > memory size ?
>>Why is having swap > memsize important? I thought that there were bugs
>>in pre-2.0 kernels but that those bugs are gone by now...?
>> Pavel
>Because there is a long standing (introduced in 1.1.x) bug in the kernel.

There is?? What is the correct config for a machine with 128MB? Do I need
to configure and use two swaps?

>It is related to the swap cache. Or maybe Alan was thinking about something
>different?
>Krzysztof

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