Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:12:38 +1000 |
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> The really strange thing is that the behaviour seems to get worse the > more RAM you have. I haven't noticed any problem at all on my laptop > with 768MB, only on the G5, which has 2.5GB. (The laptop is still on > 2.6.2-rc3 though, so I will try a newer kernel on it.)
Your G5 also has a 2Gb IO hole in the middle of zone DMA, it's possible that the accounting doesn't work properly.
Ben.
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