André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess
> might be part of the reason for the slowdown.

Following up on myself, here are some numbers:

Freshly booted 2.4.4 with X and Mozilla running, 'free' outputs this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         62716      61280       1436          0       1820      28704
-/+ buffers/cache:      30756      31960
Swap:       160608          0     160608

Freshly booted 2.4.5-ac2 with X and Mozilla running, 'free' outputs this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         62784      61784       1000        380       1824      35748
-/+ buffers/cache:      24212      38572
Swap:       160608       7128     153480

After running 2.4.5-ac2 (and other kernels after vanilla 2.4.4) for a while
the swap usage grows a lot, to around 60 MB. Older kernels didn't swap out
this aggressively in my experience.

This is on a 233 Mhz box with 64 megs of RAM.
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André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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