[oclug] kswapd problems?

[Milan Budimirovic]

Martin Hicks wrote:

> 
> VM in 2.4.9 is broken.  You _must_ have a pile of swap (I believe it's
> twice the amount of physical RAM).  Search through the linux-kernel
> mailing list archives for exact details.
> 
> I recall that the 2x physical RAM size is basically a requirement, not a
> suggestion.
> 
> mh
> 

Thanks. I'll try the new kernel, see if it solves the problem. The
amazing thing is that this machine has been chugging along with this
kernel for the past 10 months without a crash; it just gets slow in the
two hours a day it spends indexing.