Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:44:50 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [2.4] heavy-load under swap space shortage |
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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.
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