Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:44:25 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:20:47PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > >>Russell King is working on a lot of things for the MMU code in ARM. >>I'm waiting to see where he ends up. I believe he's planning on >>removing the lazy PTE release logic. > > > Essentially it came to a grinding halt due to the shere size of the > task of sorting out the crappy includes, which is far to large for a > stable kernel. > > I may go back to the original problem and sort it a different way, > but for the time being, I'm occupied in other areas. >
Anyway, Marc said he tried flushing the tlb and that didn't solve his problem.
The problem might be the one identified in the thread: 2.6.6-rc{1,2} bad VM/NFS interaction in case of dirty page writeback - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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