Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:36:05 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7 |
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > This change makes my box swap madly under load. > > Swapped out pages were not being counted in the flushing limitation. > > Could you try the following patch?
Marcelo's patch should do the trick wrt. to making page_launder() well-behaved again. It should fix the problems some people have seen with bursty swap behaviour.
> --- linux.orig/mm/vmscan.c Sat Feb 10 08:26:17 2001 > +++ linux/mm/vmscan.c Sat Feb 10 09:34:20 2001 > @@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ > > writepage(page); > flushed_pages++; > + max_launder--; > page_cache_release(page); > > /* And re-start the thing.. */
Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml
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