Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:49:41 -0700
From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       brettspamacct@fastclick.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:26:17PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Yes it includes something which should help that. Along with
> the "split active lists" that I mentioned might help your
> problem when WLI first came up with the change to the
> swappiness calculation for your problem.
> 
> It would be great if you had time to give my patch a run.
> It hasn't been widely stress tested yet though, so no
> production systems, of course!

As I said, I'm game to have a go.  The trouble was that it doesn't
apply.  My development kernel has an RMK patch applied that seems to
conflict with the MM patch on which you depend.

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