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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:48:02 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
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Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
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Marc Singer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Yes this is the same patch I wanted you to try. Yes I
remember your problem!

Didn't anyone come up with a patch for you to test the
stale PTE theory? If so, what where the results?

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