[WBEL-users] Virtual memory tuning?

[James Knowles]

>system only freezes for moments when its swapping 
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Yeah. I hate that in the 2.4 kernel, even with the 2.6 backports. I've 
not seen this behaviour under a real 2.6 kernel.

The bad use of memory (per the bug) is a separate issue. The only 
workaround that I've been able to find is to use a tiny Perl program to 
chew up huge amounts of memory and release it. This forces everything to 
page. Then let the system restablize. But it's not a long-term solution 
either. The problem slowly re-apprears.

Just the behaviour I've seen.