Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:37:31 +0100 | From | Torben Mathiasen <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7 |
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On Thu, Feb 08 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > > > 2.4.1-ac7 > > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > > | This should make things feel a lot faster especially > > | on small boxes .. feedback to Rik > > I'd really like feedback from people when it comes to this > change. The change /should/ fix most paging performance bugs > because it makes kswapd do the right amount of work in order > to solve the free memory shortage every time it is run.
Rik,
Just installed ac7 and after some 30 minutes of unpacking kernel-sources and diffing patches, I left my computer unattended for about 1 hour. When I came back the system was unusable (like it was frozen), and /var/log/messages just displayed messages of the type:
Feb 8 22:54:40 fry kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 455 (xmms). ...
The OOM killer killed most of my apps, and finally X. I had to reboot in order to get the system back. I've been running ac1-ac6 since they came out with no problems, so I guess its the VM hack that is buggy.
This is on an AMD K7 1200Mhz, 512MB Ram, ATA100. Nothing big was running at the time (xchat, xmms, mozilla, gnome, x, a few xterms).
I'll do some more testing tomorrow and provide any further information you might need.
-- Torben Mathiasen <torben@kernel.dk> Linux ThunderLAN maintainer http://opensource.compaq.com
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