Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:35:30 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7 |
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > This change makes my box swap madly under load. > > > > Swapped out pages were not being counted in the flushing limitation. > > > > Could you try the following patch? > > Marcelo's patch should do the trick wrt. to making page_launder() > well-behaved again. It should fix the problems some people have > seen with bursty swap behaviour.
It's still reluctant to shrink cache. I'm hitting I/O saturation at 20 jobs vs 30 with ac5. (difference seems to be the delta in space taken by cache.. ~same space shows as additional swap volume).
-Mike
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