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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:18:15 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy
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Terje F?berg wrote:
> Terje F?berg <terje_fb@yahoo.no> skrev: 
> 
> 
>>I'll continue to do the same things I did yesterday
>>before kswapd started to spin. 
> 
> 
> Looks very good so far. I am unable to reproduce the
> bad kswapd behaviour with your patch, Nick.
> 
> To double-check I booted into the old kernel an hour
> ago and I _could_ reproduce the bad behaviour within a
> few minutes. 
> 
> Looks like your patch fixes it for my workload.
> 

OK that's good to know. At this stage it is only working
around the intermediate symptoms, and we might want a
different fix for 2.6.11...

So hopefully you'll be able to test a patch or two if
you get time.

Thanks,
Nick

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