Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:50:20 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andreas Steinmetz <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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On 16-Sep-2001 Rik van Riel wrote: > On 16 Sep 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote: > >> Is there a way to tell the VM to prune its cache? Or a way to limit >> the amount of cache it uses? > > Not yet, I'll make a quick hack for this when I get back next > week. It's pretty obvious now that the 2.4 kernel cannot get > enough information to select the right pages to evict from > memory. > In my experience you should try to run aide (ftp://ftp.cs.tut.fi/pub/src/gnu/aide-0.7.tar.gz) for tests. This is a case of one single process doing a file system consistency check and stopping all other processes cold due to swapout due to heavy cacheing. While aide runs the system just becomes unusable.
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