Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:58:56 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: 2.1.97 mm and cache |
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Hi!
> > I really don' t think the problems is the swap code. I think the problem > > is the cache allocating code. Only it. Then the swapping code try to free > > memory swapping all out. As ever I never got into mm details so I can be > > wrong. > > My friend showed how 2.1.97 stall on its laptop with 8Mbyte of ram. So I > tried to develop something with that hardware. To hang 2.1.97 I need to > `cp -r linux tmp` and then run a `make mrproper` on a kernel tree as > suggested by my friend.
Renice kswapd to some non-realtime priorityy. If it helps, let me know.
I'm not really sure we should run kswapd on realtime priority, it just hangs too many machines... [Magic-Foo: renice kswapd? :-) ]
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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