From:	 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	 jamagallon@able.es (J . A . Magallon)
Subject: Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit
Date:	 Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:12:12 +0100 (BST)
Cc:	 R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff),
	 wakko@animx.eu.org (Wakko Warner),
	 xavier.bestel@free.fr (Xavier Bestel),
	 goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de (Goswin Brederlow),
	 fluffy@snurgle.org (William T Wilson), Matt_Domsch@Dell.com,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

> paging in just released 2.4.4, but in previuos kernel, a page that was
> paged-out, reserves its place in swap even if it is paged-in again, so
> once you have paged-out all your ram at least once, you can't get any
> more memory, even if swap is 'empty'.

This is a bug in the 2.4 VM, nothing more or less. It and the horrible bounce
buffer bugs are forcing large machines to remain on 2.2. So it has to get 
fixed


Alan

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