Re: swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Anyone able to explain why the 2.4 kernel prefers swap > instead of free RAM ??? It's a known problem that the kernel developers are trying to fix. - -- -

Re: swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread Dragos Delcea
George Dancheff wrote: > > Hi, I just compiled some kernels 2.4.x series , and it > seems to me that all these builds prefer to use my > swap space instead of my free memory , so the > performance dropped :((( . I noticed when the mashine > is not overloaded , free outputs the following : > debia

swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread George Dancheff
Hi, I just compiled some kernels 2.4.x series , and it seems to me that all these builds prefer to use my swap space instead of my free memory , so the performance dropped :((( . I noticed when the mashine is not overloaded , free outputs the following : debian:/# free total u