On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:16:45PM +0100, Paul J Collins came forth with:
>> I've been using gcc 2.95.x for my 2.4 kernels since about test9 or so,
> and I haven't had any problems.
>> One thing to note with 2.4 is that it tends to use more swap than 2.2;
> it's more aggressive in swapping out and freeing memory to use as
> cache, and once a page is back in RAM, its page in swap is not freed.
>not just uses more.. you should have 1-2 times as much swap as memory with
2.4.
They seem to be (according to kt.zork.net) debating whether if you have
oodles of ram you need to do that..
L.
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