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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:42:03 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Memory management problems in 2.4.16
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:

> 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.

I've been running a few hours of low memory testing with
my rmap VM and it's holding up fine. The system is still
responsive when the amount of pageable RAM is down to
about 400 kB ;))

cheers,

Rik
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