Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:41:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:41:34 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:6417 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:40:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:40:36 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Cc: Daniel Tuijnman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory management problems in 2.4.16 Message-ID: <20020110224036.GA32522@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020109143434.A20955@ATComputing.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > 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? 8MB should be enough. I was running 2.4.0-test7 on 8MB machine with no swap, because it had no disk to swap to. Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - 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/