Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:05:36 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts... |
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > --- mm/shmem.c.org Mon Jul 9 09:03:27 2001 > > > +++ mm/shmem.c Mon Jul 9 09:03:46 2001 > > > @@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ > > > info->swapped++; > > > > > > spin_unlock(&info->lock); > > > -out: > > > set_page_dirty(page); > > > +out: > > > UnlockPage(page); > > > return error; > > > } > > > > > > So, did I fix it or just bust it in a convenient manner ;-) > > > > ... now you drop random pages. This of course helps reducing memory > > pressure ;-) > > (shoot. I figured that was too easy to be right) > > > But still this may be a hint. You are not running out of swap, aren't > > you? > > I'm running oom whether I have swap enabled or not. The inactive > dirty list starts growing forever, until it's full of (aparantly) > dirty pages and I'm utterly oom.
We can make sure if this (inactive full of dirty pages) is really the case with the tracing code.
The shmem fix in 2.4.7-pre5 is the solution for your problem ?
If not, I'll port the tracing code to the pre5 and hopefully we can actually figure out what is going on here.
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