Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:23:58 -0500
From: cbjohns@mn.rr.com
Subject: Re: kswapd excessive CPU time
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> Recent 2.4 VM should fix this, but you better of use 2.6.
> 

Thanks Marcelo. Do you know of specific patches that have
gone into 2.4 that might fix this? I may be able to just apply them
rather than try a whole new kernel release.

Thanks,

Chris

> > 
> > My question boils down to this: given the (simple) scenario below,
> > am I missing critical VM/kswapd patches, or is this behavior
> > expected and OK, or is it wrong and possibly fixed in the 2.6 
> kernel?> Or is the kswapd behavior somehow tunable to avoid the 
> apparent> thrashing that I saw? 
> 


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