I have a big problem with the latest debian distribution (2.6?). I find that it will begin to swap like crazy after awhile.
I had this problem in 1.2.5 as well. It would begin to swap, even while sitting in a tty screen, running nothing. I had installed nothing but the base disks. I have not had that happen yet in a tty, but it has happened in dselect. I did another re-install after that because it wouldn't boot anymore, and I really hadn't done much anyways. Considering the disk thrashing I am hearing now, it looks like it is ready to do it all over again. Swap..Swap.. Unable to get free page.. etc etc etc This problem was not in the debian I was running before. My system is a: 486 SX/25, 4 MB ram, 645 MB maxtor ESDI drive w/ Ultrastor 12F controller, CGA vid, and a Novell ne-2000 Plus-3 ethernetcard.The swap is 20 MB. The only thing I am going to try is up'ing it to 20 mb o ram, and see if that makes a difference. But that likely won't fix the problem, just give it more room. Why is it abusing the swap file so badly in dselect? Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
