> I have a new system ( 4 cpu's, Intel SC450NX, 2GB memory ) and I am running
> Linux 2.2.10 smp. There is 2GB of swap configured. When I run one or more
> processes that total more than 1GB of memory swapping happens and
> performance is poor. I would like to configure things so that either 1
> process of 2GB OR more than one using a total of 2GB (approximately) would
> require no swapping. I have been told that some kernel hacking may be
> required but I can't seem to find a document that describes it.
>
> Can anyone point me to appropriate documentation or suggest where to make
> the appropriate changes to the kernel.
Did you try the 2.2.10-ac1 patch (or even ac2/3)? There's an option to use
the whole 2 GB of RAM.
I have Compaq PL6500 4-way that's running quite fine with an amount of 2
Gig RAM.
[doehrm@aubir3p1 doehrm]$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 2058010624 1224245248 833765376 16867328 711364608 361328640
Swap: 131379200 0 131379200
MemTotal: 2009776 kB
MemFree: 814224 kB
MemShared: 16472 kB
Buffers: 694692 kB
Cached: 352860 kB
SwapTotal: 128300 kB
SwapFree: 128300 kB
regards
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