On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:57:33AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never > seems > to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out, > the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion > of rebooting a system to fix a problem is giving me Windows flashbacks...) > > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other > workarounds? > > One work around is to make sure that you have a swap partition at least twice as big as physical memory. This has been just a rule of thumb prior to 2.4, but seems to be pretty important now.
Mike
