Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:08:46 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Blk Dev Cache causing kswapd thrashing |
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0500, Chris Petersen wrote: > The block device cache is causing kswapd thrashing, usually bringing > the system to a halt. > This problem has been reproduced on kernels as recent as 2.4.21. > In our application we deal with large (multi-GB) files on multi-CPU > 4GB platforms. While handling these files, the block device cache > allocates all remaining available memory (3.5G) up to the 4G > physical limit.
Please try 2.4.23-rc5, and if that doesn't fix it, try 2.6.0-test10. AIUI both have page replacement improvements over 2.4.21.
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