Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:39:39 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: excessive swapping |
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Florin,
You should get much better behaviour in 2.6.8-rc2-mm4 due to Nick's kswapd "aggressiveness" fix.
Please try it!
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:02:32PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 23:40, Florin Andrei wrote: > > I am running 2.6.8-rc4 with Ingo's voluntary preempt patch O5, on Fedora > > 2. > > At the same time, i'm processing some DVDs that i made - i'm extracting > > titles from a DVD to a dedicated hard-drive, saving audio and video > > tracks, etc with transcode-0.6.12 ( http://www.transcoding.org ). All > > that means reading/writing from/to large files on /dev/dvd and /dev/hde > > at high speeds. > > The system is swapping excessively. There's no way the total size of the > > applications exceeds the size of RAM. There's plenty of room to spare, > > yet 16% of the 530MB of swap is used. > > I am running now 2.6.8.1 with Ingo's O8 and Con Kolivas' hard swappiness > patch (an old version, sorry). Under the same conditions described > above, there is 0% swap usage. > > The CK hard swappiness patch solved the issue for me. The system works > without any problems whatsoever. - 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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