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    DateTue, 14 Dec 2004 08:24:10 +0100 (MET)
    FromVoluspa <>
    SubjectRe: 2.6.10-rc3: kswapd eats CPU on start of memory-eating task
    At 2004-12-14 2:28:59 Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
    
    > BTW, somebody told me in a private email to try the oomkiller patch, but 
    I 
    > could not extract it from the Web archive, so I don't have the latest version 
    > of that :( I'd apreciate if anyone emailed that to me, or gave me a link. 
    or 
    > a pointer to instructions on getting it right from obe of the Web archives.
    
    Final incarnation can be picked up at
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110269783227867&w=2
    
    But on my machine it doesn't address the issue you speak of. When I run something
    as demanding as that (end of memory, eating a large chunk of swap) it behaves 
    like
    yours. Gkrellm stops - no screen updates, mouse becomes very unresponsive etc. 
    Though
    I saw that as "normal" for the workload.
    
    In this appartment there's no difference between 2.6.9 patched with the kswapd 
    fix and
    the oomkill patch, or 2.6.10-rc3 with or without oomkill patch. Can't comment 
    on 2.6.8
    since I didn't exhaust memory with applications back then.
    
    Mvh
    Mats Johannesson
    
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