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SubjectRe: VM worse in 2.2.0-pre5/6 than in 2.1.132
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:

> The 2.2.0-pre* buffer cache is worse than the 2.1.132 implementation.
>
> Doing a mke2fs on a 12G device, buffer cache eats up my main memory without
> recognizing buffer_mem.max_percent as it did before.
>
> The system (2*PII/350, 256M) is absolutly not interactive for at least a minute
> friendly swaping at that time.

The problem is not the removal of the max limits for the buffers but the
try_to_free_pages() implementation. My try_to_free_pages() should work
better for you.

Andrea Arcangeli


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