Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:38:44 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: patch cow-swapin [was Re: Very bad swap bug -- 2.0, 2.1 at least] |
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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Ion Badulescu wrote:
>Here is a small program which will demonstrate the bug. Change the FILESIZE >value so it won't kill your machine, make sure you have enough disk space >(and no file called "foo"), then start it and watch the "bo" column of a >"vmstat 1".
We are working on the "si" column. I' ve checked that the "si" column is always 0 with the new experimental smart swap cache code (2.1 only).
>No, I've no clue (yet) how to fix it, but ideas are always welcome. I don't >know if 2.1 has the same behavior -- no box is running 2.1 right now.
Yes bo is full with 2.1 too, but I have not read your source and so I don' t know if this is the right behavior.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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