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Subject: RE: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:22:41 +0100 
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Just to throw in my EUR 0.02:

We're using 2.4.17-rc2aa2 on a quite huge database server. This is the most
stable and performant kernel IMHO since we tested the new 2.4.>10 series. 

The machine has 4 GB main memory, the DB process mallocs about 3 GB memory
spawning about 150 threads. "Older" kernels had the problem that short after
logging in the machine starts heavily swapping leaving the system unusable
for minutes.

2.4.17-rc2aa2 does not have this problem (since now) - even under DB loads >
15 the system is still responsive.

Good Work!


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