Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:50:36 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff |
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I have an alternate patch for low memory circumstances that I'd like you to test out.
The problem with the old kswapd setup was at least partly that kswapd was woken up too late - by the time kswapd was woken up, it really had to work fairly hard. Also, kswapd really shouldn't be real-time at all: normally it should just be a fairly low-priority process, and the priority should grow as there is more urgent need for memory.
This alternate approach seems to work for me, and is designed to avoid the "spikes" of heavy real-time kswapd activity during which the machine is fairly unusable in the old scheme.
In the meantime, I'd really much rather look at your scheduling patches as a separate thing,
Linus
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