Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:21:36 +0100 | From | marcel cotta <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.1: kernel BUG at mm/swapfile.c:806 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > marcel cotta <marcel@kriminell.com> wrote: > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>marcel cotta <marcel@kriminell.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>i got this oops after the box swapped like crazy under X for about 5 >>>>minutes >>>>while swapping it was nearly unusable (jerky mouse, console switching >>>>took 10 seconds) >>>>the extreme performance drop is always reproducible when swapping starts >>>> >>>> >>>>------------[ cut here ]------------ >>>>kernel BUG at mm/swapfile.c:806! >>> >>> >>>Amazing. Are you using a swapfile, or are you swapping to a block device? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>hehe, hasnt been reported for a while eh ;) >> >>i used swapfiles, one static 50mb file and the rest in temp 16MB >>blocks managed by swapd > > > What is `swapd'? > >
it checks the remaining free memory every n seconds and creates swapfiles by n size if needed
the README:
swapd 0.2 (May 21, 2000), copyright Neven Lovric <nlovric@linux.hr>
swapd is a dynamic swapping manager for Linux. It provides the system with as much swap space (virtual memory) as is required at a particular time by dynamicly creating swap files. This is more convinient than using fixed swap files and/or partitions because they (a) are unused most of the time and are just taking up disk space; and (b) provide a limited amount of virtual memory.
This program is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please refer to file 'COPYING' for more information.
The latest version of this program can be found at http://cvs.linux.hr/swapd or at ftp.linux.hr in /pub/swapd.
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