Re: Stable Alpha on 2.2? How do we build a stable install?

[Eric Bohm <bohm gate csgeeks org>]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lindahl <lindahl@cs.virginia.edu> writes:

    >> Even under 2.2.7 I end up with apparently absurd memory use.
    >> 
    >> 9:57am up 11:18, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00 47
    >> processes: 45 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU
    >> states: 1.8% user, 2.0% system, 0.0% nice, 96.0% idle Mem:
    >> 192232K av, 186472K used, 5760K free, 69008K shrd, 39168K buff
    >> Swap: 170256K av, 2760K used, 167496K free 91424K cached

    Greg> Um, what's absurd about that? The "Mem used" line reflects
    Greg> both program usage and the disk cache.

Perhaps I'm misreading the output of top, but having only 5M free and
hitting swap just looks peculiar to me on a marginally loaded machine
with 196M of physical memory.  Maybe I should go read up on the
expected behavior.