Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263137AbUD2DPl (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:15:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263173AbUD2DPk (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:15:40 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:12929 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263137AbUD2DP3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:15:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:14:19 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Andrew Morton , brettspamacct@fastclick.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell Message-ID: <20040429031419.GE737@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , brettspamacct@fastclick.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <409021D3.4060305@fastclick.com> <20040428170106.122fd94e.akpm@osdl.org> <409047E6.5000505@pobox.com> <40905127.3000001@fastclick.com> <20040428180038.73a38683.akpm@osdl.org> <16528.23219.17557.608276@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20040428185342.0f61ed48.akpm@osdl.org> <20040428194039.4b1f5d40.akpm@osdl.org> <16528.28485.996662.598051@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16528.28485.996662.598051@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> 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: 1150 Lines: 26 On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:58:13PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > The client/server thing is a bit misleading, what matters is the > direction of the transfer. In the case I saw this morning, the G5 was > the sender. In any case I was using the -W switch, which tells it not > to use the rsync algorithm but just transfer the whole file. So I > believe that rsync on the G5 side was just reading the file through > once. > I have also noticed similar behaviour after doing a bk pull on a > kernel tree. > 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.) Looks like you've got a system with an issue. Any chance you could send logs from an instrumented test run? Thanks. -- wli - 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/