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.
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 10:33, Jason Copenhaver wrote:
> 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
>
I have to concur. I was running the 2.4.7 kernel on a debian system last
year. Same problems with performance. I ended going back to the built-in
2.2 kernel, until I read about the benefits of the VM rewrite in the
newer kernels.
Matt
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