> Actually I have tried 1x,2x,3x. In 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 I had some issues but
> never a system freeze of any kind. With 2.4.4 I had more problems, but
> I was ok. 2.4.5 I now have these freezes. Maybe I should go back to
> 2x, but I still find this behavior crazy.
> This still doesn't negate the point of freeing simple caches.
The caches are in part shared. Remember page cache memory and read only
application pages are the same thing - so its not that simple. I found 2.4.5
pretty bad. 2.4.5-ac seems to be better on the whole but I know its definitely
not right yet. Marcelo and Rik are working on that more and more.
Marcelo has a test patch to fix the (documented but annoying) 2x memory
swap rule stuff. The balancing problem is harder but being worked on.
If you can give Rik a summary of your config/what apps run/ps data then it
may be valuable as he can duplicate your exact setup for testing his
vm changes and add it to the test sets.
Alan
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