Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:06:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: More on O_STREAMING (goodby read pauses) |
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"J.A. Magallon" wrote: > > ... > I look at gnome system monitor graph for mem. I start with a tiny amount of > used memory. Start the 1Gb read without O_STREAM, the blue area in monitor > starts to grow linearly in time, stars (*) from the reader appear at a > given rate, and as soon as it touches the top limit the stars stop, the disk > begins to thrash, and swap space used grows. After a 2-4 seconds, the stars > go again with the same rate. Tell me what is this but swapper writing pages, > and reading the new pages for my giga. >
That's fairly rude behaviour for a 2.4 kernel. Sounds like 2.5 ;)
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