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Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:02:04 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: christian e <cej@ti.com>
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Subject: Re: swapping,any updates ?? Just wasted money on mem upgrade performance still suck :-(
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On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:31:21 +0100
christian e <cej@ti.com> wrote:

> Hi,all
> 
> You might remember I had issues with massive swapping and wanted to know 
> whether I can control the amount of cache and buffers and so on.Well I 
> thought a mem upgrade would do the trick ,but no :-(
> Not easy to explain to my boss that it still crawls with 512 MB mem and 
> that's the max limit in this laptop..Anyone found any solutions ?? Check 
> this out:

Besides the fact I couldn't identify the kernel version from your mail, I would
try:

1) Turn off swap, then
2) Use 2.4.17 with patch I send you off LKML.

Then give us a hint if things got better.

Regards,
Stephan


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