On Sun 2007-11-25 22:28:03, Josh Goldsmith wrote:
> Thanks for the response Mikael.
>
> Is your 486 running a IDE disk on a normal interface or
> via USB? I wonder if the NSLU2 only having I/O via USB
> might be significant. Also, this is a 2.6 kernel and
I'd suspect USB is significant here. Talk to Olivier Neukum (sp?),iirc
he was trying to fix swapping over usb.
Pavel
> >I'm no VM tuning expert, but I have and still do heavy
> >compile
> >jobs on similarly configured machines, with no OOM
> >problems:
> >
> >I regularly build 2.6 kernels and occasionally also gcc
> >on a
> >100MHz 486 with 28MB of RAM and perhaps 500MB of swap.
> >It runs
> >a standard but stripped down Fedora Core 4 user-space,
> >with ext3
> >file systems and a kernel that doesn't include anything
> >non-essential.
> >The machine will swap madly, but the OOM killer never
> >triggers.
> >(All system settings are FC4 defaults. I haven't
> >touched them.)
> >
> >In the past I did a fair amount of package rebuilds and
> >test suite
> >runs on an NSLU2 myself, with a 2.4 Linksys/Openslug
> >kernel, ext3,
> >and a 1GB or perhaps 2GB swap partition on a disk
> >attached via a
> >USB2-to-PATA enclosure. Even when swapping heavily the
> >OOM killer
> >wouldn't trigger.
> >
>
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