Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:22:22 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > > > 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.
heh. It should have zone->spanned_pages - zone->present_pages = 2G. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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