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DateTue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:24 +1100
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: [2.4] heavy-load under swap space shortage

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>
>Either that or you can choose to do some overwork and to shrink from all
>the zones removing this break:
>
>		if (ret >= nr_pages)
>			break;
>
>but as far as I can tell, the 50% waste of cache in a 2G box can happen
>in 2.6.4 and it won't happen in 2.4.x.
>
>

Yeah you are right. Some patches have since gone into 2.6-bk and
this is one of the things fixed up.

Nick

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