Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: VM balancing stuff in 2.4.8-9 broken | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:20:56 +0200 |
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On August 28, 2001 04:06 am, Peter Magnusson wrote: > I just wanted to say that the VM balancing stuff in 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 doesnt > work very well. 2.4.8 and .9 will use 200 Mbyte of my swap after just 6 > hours! I got 512 Mbyte RAM, 256 Mbyte swap. > > I have now switched back to 2.4.7. Uptime 6 days and 11 Mbyte swap used. > I would prefer if Linux used as little swap as possible. It only gets > slower. > > (if you want to reply to me send mail to iocc@flashdancejahatjosan.cx > without jahatjosan.)
Known problem, a patch exists and was applied in 2.4.10-pre1. Here it is again if you want to verify this:
--- ../2.4.9.clean/mm/memory.c Mon Aug 13 19:16:41 2001 +++ ./mm/memory.c Sun Aug 19 21:35:26 2001 @@ -1119,6 +1119,7 @@ */ return pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte) ? -1 : 1; } + SetPageReferenced(page); } /* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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