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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 07:25:34PM -0500, tneidt@××××××.com wrote: |
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> Hello All Gentoo Developers! |
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> I would like to introduce myself and thank everyone for the effort that |
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> you have put into creating an exceptional GNU/Linux distribution. I |
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> have successfully installed Gentoo on a 900 MHz Anthlon, 128 MB mem, 40 |
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> GB hd, a 300 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB mem, 10 GB hd, and even an ageing |
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> Pentium 166 MHz, 16 MB mem, 2 GB hd notebook. I will try and sort |
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> through my notes on getting Gentoo up and running on these machines and |
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> post feedback comments to the group. Hopefully, these will be of use to |
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> someone. |
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> I noticed that Daniel had added linux-2.4.5-ac5 to the package.mask due |
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> to lock up problems. I have experienced similiar problems after my |
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> kernel was inadvertenly upgraded while upgrading another package |
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> (presumbly before 2.4.5 was added to package.mask). The problem seemed |
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> to be premature and runaway swappage, especially when dealing with large |
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> files. Reviewing the kernel mailing list indicates this to be a known |
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> problem. However, I do not experience the swapping problems with the |
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> 2.4.4-ac5 kernel. This brings me to my long-winded question. The |
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> consensus on the kernel mailing list seems to be that you need to have |
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> swap=2*RAM for 2.4 kernels. Unfortunately, I partitioned my drives with |
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> swap=1*RAM (habit from the 2.2 series I suppose). I would be interested |
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> in how much swap relative to RAM other gentoo users have partitioned |
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> and whether they have been experiencing similar problems. I need to |
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> decide if I should repartition for swap = 2 * RAM now to avoid |
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> problems with future updates to the kernel. |
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> Once again, thanks for the good work. |
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Thanks for the "thank you" :) |
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The short answer is that you should be using 2x RAM for kernels in the 2.4.4 |
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series (the only ones we are recommending at the moment; our current favorite |
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is 2.4.4-ac9). When 2.4.6 comes out, you should be able to use 1x RAM without |
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problems. But 2x RAM is generally still a good idea. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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