Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 19:58:39 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 |
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On 20 May 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are > > > trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also > > > why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.) > > > > Magic numbers might be sucking some performance right now ;-) > > > [snip] > > I like your patch, it improves performance somewhat and makes things > more smooth and also code is simpler.
Thanks for the feedback. Positive is nice.. as is negative.
> Anyway, 2.4.5-pre3 is quite debalanced and it has even broken some > things that were working properly before. For instance, swapoff now > deadlocks the machine (even with your patch applied).
I haven't run into that.
> Unfortunately, I have failed to pinpoint the exact problem, but I'm > confident that kernel goes in some kind of loop (99% system time, just > before deadlock). Anybody has some guidelines how to debug kernel if > you're running X?
Serial console and kdb or kgdb if you have two machines.. or uml?
> Also in all recent kernels, if the machine is swapping, swap cache > grows without limits and is hard to recycle, but then again that is > a known problem.
This one bugs me. I do not see that and can't understand why.
-Mike
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