[ale] Tendency up which to avoid looking things

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 17:37, Rafos701 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>(1) While I have run with and without reiserfs, and with swap part'ns half 
>>and the same size as RAM, sometimes there is a nearly constant activity in 
>>noise coming from my hdd.
>>
> 
> This may have been fixed, but with early 2.4 kernels, swap >= 2x RAM was
> a requirement or else it would thrash exactly as you describe.

Can you define 'early?'  I'm at 2.4.17, but have been through various 
2.4.? (2.4.3 -> 2.4.17) kernels and have not seen this problem.  .5 gig 
ram and 128 mb swap.

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