Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:48:02 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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Marc Singer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:21:24AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Anyway, I have a small set of VM patches which attempt to improve >>this sort of behaviour if anyone is brave enough to try them. >>Against -mm kernels only I'm afraid (the objrmap work causes some >>porting difficulty). > > > Is this the same patch you wanted me to try? > > Remember, the embedded system where NFS IO was pushing my > application out of memory. Setting swappiness to zero was a > temporary fix. > >
Yes this is the same patch I wanted you to try. Yes I remember your problem!
Didn't anyone come up with a patch for you to test the stale PTE theory? If so, what where the results?
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