Thank you for confirming what I was about to do,, download the 2.4.18
kernel.
Thanks again.
Michael C. Rock
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Jason
Copenhaver
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:34 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Swap management
the early VMs in 2.4.x weren't very effcient.. my suggestion would be to
upgrade to the 2.4.18 kernel.. it should perform better as it has a
completely rewritten VM.. (the rewrite happened in 2.4.10 and has been
steadily improved upon)
Jason
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Mikes work account wrote:
>
>
> I have 512,000K of memory and an equal amount of swap space. For some
> reason my RH 2.4.9-31 kernel seems to be mismanageing my swap space. It
> seems to grow and never shrink and as it does my load average goes out the
> roof. If I reboot the server then the system will settle down and operate
> efficiently (low load average). It also does not need the swap space it
was
> using either. This seems like a mismanaged swap issue to me or is there
> something I am not aware of in the setup of this system?
>
> Michael C. Rock
>
>
>
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