Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:44:50 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [2.4] heavy-load under swap space shortage
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:41:24AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> >
> >Either that or you can choose to do some overwork and to shrink from all
> >the zones removing this break:
> >
> >		if (ret >= nr_pages)
> >			break;
> >
> >but as far as I can tell, the 50% waste of cache in a 2G box can happen
> >in 2.6.4 and it won't happen in 2.4.x.
> >
> >
> 
> Yeah you are right. Some patches have since gone into 2.6-bk and
> this is one of the things fixed up.

sounds great, thanks!
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