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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