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SubjectRe: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
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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