lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2001]   [Sep]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

On 16-Sep-2001 Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 16 Sep 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to tell the VM to prune its cache? Or a way to limit
>> the amount of cache it uses?
>
> Not yet, I'll make a quick hack for this when I get back next
> week. It's pretty obvious now that the 2.4 kernel cannot get
> enough information to select the right pages to evict from
> memory.
>
In my experience you should try to run aide
(ftp://ftp.cs.tut.fi/pub/src/gnu/aide-0.7.tar.gz) for tests. This is a case of
one single process doing a file system consistency check and stopping all other
processes cold due to swapout due to heavy cacheing. While aide runs the system
just becomes unusable.


Andreas Steinmetz
D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:03    [W:0.112 / U:1.840 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site