> > Note that I'm not sure how tightly the problems are tied to swap; after > > they start, they seem to persist even when swap is no longer used. It's > > just the best criterion I've been able to identify so far. > > Weird. I just can't reproduce any of your problems, neither on the > tipb with highmem & lots of RAM, or on the wallstreet with no highmem > and little RAM (thus swap)...
Same here - 128 MB RAM, 256 MB swap with half of that currently in use (mostly by mol). Doesn't miss a beat. > I've been running with preempt for a few days now without trouble. > > What else are you using ? I suspect something like MOL may have troubles > with preempt for example... Apparently not (0.9.69-20031019-5 here, haven't got 0.9.70 to behave yet). Michael