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SubjectRe: [2.4] heavy-load under swap space shortage
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:41:24AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >
> >Either that or you can choose to do some overwork and to shrink from all
> >the zones removing this break:
> >
> > if (ret >= nr_pages)
> > break;
> >
> >but as far as I can tell, the 50% waste of cache in a 2G box can happen
> >in 2.6.4 and it won't happen in 2.4.x.
> >
> >
>
> Yeah you are right. Some patches have since gone into 2.6-bk and
> this is one of the things fixed up.

sounds great, thanks!
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