From: "Don Krause" <dkrause@optivus.com>
To: "'Ronald Bultje'" <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>,
        "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:51:47 -0700
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> Can someone please
> point out to me
> that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with
> more than 128
> MB RAM and that he's NOT having severe stability problems?
> And can that same person PLEASE point out to me why 2.4.x is
> crashing on
> me (or help me to find out...)?

%uname -a
Linux cartman 2.4.0-64GB-SMP #1 SMP Wed Jan 24 15:52:30 GMT 2001 i686
unknown
%uptime
 8:35am  up 57 days, 12:42,  2 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
%free
             total      used      free      shared      buffers      cached
Mem:        254904    251968      2936           0        92224       45028
-/+ buffers/cache:    114716    140188
Swap:       524656     14192    510464


Could this be a 2.4 swap issue. You NEED at least RAM x2 swap. If you're
just adding memory to
a box that's stable with 128 megs and possibly 256 megs swap (you don't
state, just guessing..)
you've now got too little swap, and boom, stability goes bye-bye.

Just haven't seen the swap issue mentioned this thread...

=Don=

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