Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:13:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:12:58 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:16649 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:12:53 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit To: jamagallon@able.es (J . A . Magallon) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:12:12 +0100 (BST) Cc: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff), wakko@animx.eu.org (Wakko Warner), xavier.bestel@free.fr (Xavier Bestel), goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de (Goswin Brederlow), fluffy@snurgle.org (William T Wilson), Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010428162803.C1062@werewolf.able.es> from "J . A . Magallon" at Apr 28, 2001 04:28:03 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > paging in just released 2.4.4, but in previuos kernel, a page that was > paged-out, reserves its place in swap even if it is paged-in again, so > once you have paged-out all your ram at least once, you can't get any > more memory, even if swap is 'empty'. This is a bug in the 2.4 VM, nothing more or less. It and the horrible bounce buffer bugs are forcing large machines to remain on 2.2. So it has to get fixed Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/