Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Jan 2002 10:59:23 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: kswapd etc hogging machine |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > But Art's kernel (what kernel is in RH7.2 anyway? 2.4.9 with vendor > > hacks^Wfixes, I think) is nowhere near that stage. > > 7.2 is 2.4.7-ac ish, 7.2 + errata is 2.4.9-ac ish
OK, thanks.
> > The good news is that 2.4.17 has pretty much slain this dragon. The > > -aa patches are better still, and 2.4.18 will be even better than > > that. > > Bollocks. I get regular mails from large numbers of people who are stuck > at 2.4.12/13-ac and are hoping I'll do an update because their machines > die in hours or run 25-50% slower with 2.4.1x.
I was referring to the swap and evict in the presence of heavy write traffic.
> 2.4.1x VM code is performing better under light loads but its absolutely > and completely hopeless under a real paging load. 2.4.17-aa is somewhat > better interestingly. >
s/interestingly/frustratingly/. -aa has some interesting changes to the write scheduling as well. I just wish I knew what problem they're solving.
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