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    SubjectRe: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
    On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:58:13PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
    > The client/server thing is a bit misleading, what matters is the
    > direction of the transfer. In the case I saw this morning, the G5 was
    > the sender. In any case I was using the -W switch, which tells it not
    > to use the rsync algorithm but just transfer the whole file. So I
    > believe that rsync on the G5 side was just reading the file through
    > once.
    > I have also noticed similar behaviour after doing a bk pull on a
    > kernel tree.
    > The really strange thing is that the behaviour seems to get worse the
    > more RAM you have. I haven't noticed any problem at all on my laptop
    > with 768MB, only on the G5, which has 2.5GB. (The laptop is still on
    > 2.6.2-rc3 though, so I will try a newer kernel on it.)

    Looks like you've got a system with an issue. Any chance you could send
    logs from an instrumented test run?

    Thanks.


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