Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:49:37 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [BUG+FIX] 2.4 buggercache sucks |
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"Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > >> Was your workload doing lots of reads, or lots of writes? Or both? > > > > I was downloading large files @ ~ 4Mbps from 20-50 clients - filesize ~3GB > > the box has 1GB memory minus (no highmem) - so - 900 megs. After some time it > > starts swapping and it OOMs. Same happens with several userspace httpd's > > Mmmm .... not quite sure which way round to read that. Presumably the box > that was the server fell over, and the clients are fine? So the workload that's > causing problems is doing predominantly reads? If so, I suggest you tear down > Andrew's patch to read side only, and submit that ... I get the feeling that would > be acceptable, and would solve your problem.
But we still don't know what the problem _is_. It's very weird. - 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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