Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:20:57 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.127 BUGS was Re: Linux-2.1.127 |
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Hi,
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:37:19 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> said:
> I think the reason why Linus' fix doesn't help completely is that swap_out() > has its own loop that frees a lot of pages according to the priority. Maybe > the nr_free_pages > 2*freepages.high exit condition should be added there > too.
No: swap_out() exits as soon as it has found one page to free. The loop only runs while it is searching for that one page.
--Stephen
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