Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262293AbUD2A7v (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262351AbUD2A7u (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:59:50 -0400 Received: from florence.buici.com ([206.124.142.26]:62341 "HELO florence.buici.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262293AbUD2A6C (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:58:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:58:01 -0700 From: Marc Singer To: Nick Piggin Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , brettspamacct@fastclick.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell Message-ID: <20040429005801.GA21978@buici.com> References: <409021D3.4060305@fastclick.com> <20040428170106.122fd94e.akpm@osdl.org> <409047E6.5000505@pobox.com> <40904A84.2030307@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40904A84.2030307@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 18 On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:21:24AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Anyway, I have a small set of VM patches which attempt to improve > this sort of behaviour if anyone is brave enough to try them. > Against -mm kernels only I'm afraid (the objrmap work causes some > porting difficulty). Is this the same patch you wanted me to try? Remember, the embedded system where NFS IO was pushing my application out of memory. Setting swappiness to zero was a temporary fix. - 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/