Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:04:50 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [OT] No Swap. Re: [BUG 2.6.90-test5] kernel shits itself with 48mb ram under moderate load |
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:54:07PM +0200, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: > That's what matters. Try to work in vim if it is permanently get > swaped out. _*Very*_ _*very*_ not nice. > And there is no memory pressure - kernel just decided to enlarge I/O > cache... 100% stupid. > I personally prefer to have statical I/O cache - never saw it working > reliably with dynamic allocation.
This is a different question from what I had in mind. There are some controls in 2.6.x to control the relative tendencies to evict unmapped pagecache vs. unmapping etc. anonymous memory. I'd try adjusting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness and reporting how (in)effective that is, then if that still doesn't work, various things can be adjusted.
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