Re: Linux-2.0.34 & crashme

Mark Phillips (M.S.Phillips@nortel.co.uk)
Thu, 28 May 1998 10:44:55 +0100 (BST)

Krzysztof Strasburger writes:
> >> Do you have swap > memory size ?
> >Why is having swap > memsize important? I thought that there were bugs
> >in pre-2.0 kernels but that those bugs are gone by now...?
> > Pavel
> Because there is a long standing (introduced in 1.1.x) bug in the kernel.

Could you please let me know what that bug is!

I've been running with much less swap than ram for ages (currently
96MB ram, 12MB swap). Basically because I was short of disk space and
never tend to run anything which uses swap (if it start swaping, I
start killing things......).

Cheers
Mark

> It is related to the swap cache. Or maybe Alan was thinking about something
> different?
> Krzysztof
> 

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