Comment 2.4.14-pre5aa1 (Score 1) 330
Try linux 2.4.14-pre5aa1, it works great on my Pentium MMX 166 Mhz, 64MB RAM, 200MB swap. I done some memory allocation stress on both 2.4.14pre5 and 2.4.14pre5aa1, 2.4.14pre5 freezed while 2.4.14pre5aa1 killed away my program as I expected:
I have tried almost all kernel versions from 2.2.13 till 2.4.14-pre5aa1 including ac series. When I switched from 2.2 series to 2.4 I have got perception that my system became slower, not to mention that 2.4 VM put every process to swap, using RAM mostly for buffers and cache (e.g., when switching to different WindowMaker workspace you see that xterms on that workspace already got swapped with no reason, i.e. at no memory shortage). And now it seems like those good days of 2.2 perfomance is coming back. Maybe it is not perfect yet, but it is really getting there. It is again possible to run system without swap if you have enough RAM.
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process test_vm
I have tried almost all kernel versions from 2.2.13 till 2.4.14-pre5aa1 including ac series. When I switched from 2.2 series to 2.4 I have got perception that my system became slower, not to mention that 2.4 VM put every process to swap, using RAM mostly for buffers and cache (e.g., when switching to different WindowMaker workspace you see that xterms on that workspace already got swapped with no reason, i.e. at no memory shortage). And now it seems like those good days of 2.2 perfomance is coming back. Maybe it is not perfect yet, but it is really getting there. It is again possible to run system without swap if you have enough RAM.
