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Subject: Re: hints at modifying kswapd params in 2.4.16
To: sven@research.nj.nec.com (Sven Heinicke)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 21:11:24 +0000 (GMT)
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> The first system I tried was Red Hat 7.1, it never used more then 2G
> of cache memory leaving the other 2G free.
> 
> The other system, Mandrake 8.0, sucks up all the 4G of memory with
> cache but has not yet shown any signs of thrashing.  Though the code
> has only been running a few hours.

The RH 7.1 tree is 2.4.2-ac based and certainly wont behave well under some
loads.
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