Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262833AbUCOWod (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:44:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262843AbUCOWoR (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:44:17 -0500 Received: from mail-05.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.37]:27869 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262833AbUCOWl3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:41:29 -0500 Message-ID: <40563114.5040204@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:24 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli CC: Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton , 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 References: <4055BF90.5030806@cyberone.com.au> <20040315145020.GC30940@dualathlon.random> <405628AC.4030609@cyberone.com.au> <20040315222419.GM30940@dualathlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20040315222419.GM30940@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 26 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. Nick - 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/