Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:05:41 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: out_of_memory() heuristic broken for different mem configurations |
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 07:25:40 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> Note how you also go for seconds with no IO and no shrinking of the > caches, while shrink_cache() is apparently happy (and no, it does not take > several seconds to traverse even a 16GB inactive queue, there's something > else going on)
Did you time it? There is a lot of things going on in the shrink_cache loop including swap_out, wait_on_page, locks, ... It's not really simple traversing of a queue.
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