FC2 v's FC1: memory handling
Marc Lucke
marc at marcsnet.com
Wed Jun 2 01:57:28 UTC 2004
um - it won't use any more than 2-300k of swap memory, that is...
Marc Lucke wrote:
> Anecdotally it seems that FC2 will do everything it can to avoid
> paging to the hard disk whereas FC1 was quite happy to go on chewing
> up hard drive until the proverbial cows come home. However
> performance seems to suffer - my sendmail process now takes so long to
> answer when my hard disk is under heavy load and I am beginning to
> suspect that the system's paging routines might have something to do
> with this. In FC1, 1GB of RAM did not seem to be enough, in FC2 no
> matter what I'm doing it won't use any more than about 2-300k!
>
> I think this may be a kernel thing, but any comments?
>
>
> Marc
>
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