Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:15:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:15:49 -0500 Received: from [200.193.163.106] ([200.193.163.106]:59038 "EHLO 5-106.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:15:48 -0500 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:22:12 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Steffen Moser cc: Javier Marcet , Subject: Re: Exaggerated swap usage In-Reply-To: <20021130140518.GB1735@steffen-moser.de> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 24 On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Steffen Moser wrote: > I've experienced a similar problem with "linux-2.4.20-rc2-ac3", > "linux-2.4.20-rc4-ac1" and "linux-2.4.20-ac1". At first I also > thought it's a swap problem, but this seems to be a wrong con- > clusion, too. Known problem, rmap14 doesn't do pageout IO soon enough. This is good if the inactive pages are clean (cache) but stalls the system if the data needs to be written to disk. This should be fixed in rmap15. Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://guru.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: october@surriel.com - 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/