Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | | Date | 06 Jun 2001 12:52:07 -0600 |
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Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> writes:
> The problem I reported is not that 2.4 uses huge amounts of swap but > that trying to recover that swap off of disk under 2.4 can leave the > machine in an entirely unresponsive state, while 2.2 handles identical > situations gracefully. >
The interesting thing from other reports is that it appears to be kswapd using up CPU resources. Not the swapout code at all. So it appears to be a fundamental VM issue. And calling swapoff is just a good way to trigger it.
If you could confirm this by calling swapoff sometime other than at reboot time. That might help. Say by running top on the console.
Eric
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