Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:57:56 +0100 | From | Javier Marcet <> | Subject | Re: Exaggerated swap usage |
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* Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> [021130 19:25]:
>> I've experienced a similar problem with "linux-2.4.20-rc2-ac3", >> "linux-2.4.20-rc4-ac1" and "linux-2.4.20-ac1". At first I also >> thought it's a swap problem, but this seems to be a wrong con- >> clusion, too.
>Known problem, rmap14 doesn't do pageout IO soon enough. This >is good if the inactive pages are clean (cache) but stalls the >system if the data needs to be written to disk.
>This should be fixed in rmap15.
Is rmap15 included in 2.4.20-rc4-ac1? That's the last ac I used and was paging out too much, so that the system became slow unnecessarily.
-- Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com> [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |