Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:12:05 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: memory management |
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On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, M. TELGARSKY wrote:
> The main problem (as I see it and many have noted) is with swapping. > Linux will overzealously swap (I have had 10% mem usage and 100% > swap usage (and my swap is 100 meg, ram 64) occurr a few times. > > not only this, but the swapping will take top kernel priority, so > everything will die for a few seconds as (usually too much) is > swapped.
Let me guess, you are using plain 2.1.130?
> this really needs to get fixed....
It's been fixed for over a week now ;) Anything else you want to be done?
Upgrade to 2.1.131 + my swapin_readahead patch. It fixes these bugs (and sometimes swaps too little in my taste).
regards,
Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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