Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2003 18:19:08 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... |
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On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > So, could the people who report long hangs retry with swap disabled ? > Can we limit the amount of memory consummed by the cache during such a write ?
the vm should be (i.e. is supposed to be) smart enough not to unmap anything significant just because of large writes. I'm sure it's not swapping anything on my desktop during write flood (and certainly not the mouse pointer) but checking with swapoff is certainly a good hint to be sure.
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