Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270004AbUJHApy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:45:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269899AbUJHAlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:41:09 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:17586 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269959AbUJHAjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:39:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:37:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: chrisw@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au Subject: Re: kswapd in tight loop 2.6.9-rc3-bk-recent Message-Id: <20041007173748.0be87160.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4165E0A7.7080305@yahoo.com.au> References: <20041007142019.D2441@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20041007164044.23bac609.akpm@osdl.org> <4165E0A7.7080305@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 554 Lines: 15 Nick Piggin wrote: > > >I think a good starting point here will be to revert the most recent > >change. > > > > That may fix it for the simple fact that kswapd will just go through its > priority loop once then stop. No it won't. It'll probably make the priority windup worse. - 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/