[TriLUG] Memory use with 2.4 kernel?

[Dan Chen]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:08:40PM -0500, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed on this list before, but I've recently 
> upgraded my kernel at home to 2.4, and the memory usage seems to be really 
> high. I've got a 256MB box, and top reports the darn thing is using most of 
> it. I've turned off everything that's not in use.

Which 2.4 kernel? Virtually every revision of 2.4 gives different
performance profiles. Kinda sickening, actually. I'm at 2.4.18-rc2-ac1
myself since things appear to have stabilized.

> Call me crazy, but I kind of expect a 256MB box to be able to handle a 
> vanilla workstation KDE configuration with no servers or any other extra 
> software running.

It can just fine.

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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