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DateSat, 30 Nov 2002 16:22:12 -0200 (BRST)
FromRik van Riel <>
SubjectRe: Exaggerated swap usage
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Steffen Moser wrote:

> I've experienced a similar problem with "linux-2.4.20-rc2-ac3",
> "linux-2.4.20-rc4-ac1" and "linux-2.4.20-ac1". At first I also
> thought it's a swap problem, but this seems to be a wrong con-
> clusion, too.

Known problem, rmap14 doesn't do pageout IO soon enough. This
is good if the inactive pages are clean (cache) but stalls the
system if the data needs to be written to disk.

This should be fixed in rmap15.

Rik
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