Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:48:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:48:01 -0500 Received: from mail3.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.38]:32714 "EHLO mail3.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:47:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 06:47:57 -0800 (PST) From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" To: Daniel Tuijnman cc: Subject: Re: Memory management problems in 2.4.16 In-Reply-To: <20020109143434.A20955@ATComputing.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Daniel Tuijnman wrote: > I installed a 2.4.16 kernel on a 486DX2-50 machine with 8MB memory and > 24MB swap and got insurmountable problems. [snip] > It seems to me that something definitely is wrong with the kernel's > memory management. Well ... maybe *in theory* 2.4.16 should work on a machine with that little RAM but I'd say in practice Linux has simply outgrown your machine. Have you tried any other 2.4 kernels, say, before 2.4.10 when the VM changed? Have you considered going to a garage sale and spending the local equivalent of $25 or $30 US for a more powerful computer? -- M. Edward "Now if I could get Linux to run on a Tandy 200" Borasky znmeb@borasky-research.net http://www.borasky-research.net If they named a street after Picabo Street, would it be called Picabo Street, Street Street or Picabo Street Street? - 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/