I said i moved away form Red Hat 2.4x kernels due to the memory issues.
I use Red Hat 2.6x kernels now as they seems to behave properly in
regards to swap. I have seen it way too many times with RH 2.4x kernels
on many many machines.
John Summerfield wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
>> i moved away from Red Hat 2.4x kernels as they have an annoying
>> tendency to swap instead of giving back cache. I moved to Centos-4
>> and i have vm.swappiness to zero and am using at most 144K of swap
>> across 5 machines.
>
> I should have mentioned that every time I compare a 2.6 kernel with RHL
> 7.3 on this test:
> hdparm -t /dev/hda
>
> RHL is always faster. I was also running some other tests involving
> bonnie{,++} where RHL was still looking good, then Google interevened.
>
> Known problem.
>
> It was a year or so ago, maybe it's fixed.
>
>
>
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