Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:14:19 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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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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