Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964957AbWEVAJy (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 20:09:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964958AbWEVAJy (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 20:09:54 -0400 Received: from smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.213]:46986 "HELO smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964957AbWEVAJx (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 20:09:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=pVums11Z4RPwI4Qxh2YDVat0ErxtjuuGrZWUzhIKYi8UH3npleZRnKUPScH83p+v7BMuLM6TfEQP0DbhfR9UL/ldixgrbhmMZympJ3XMjIzMGp1pJFkD02hgxQizJ712DzlXAVgBHEr1LOBX15YKGTFoy6t8KFo1Sj3oP2m/bvI= ; Message-ID: <44710144.7090105@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:09:40 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Haar_J=E1nos?= CC: Chris Wedgwood , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: swapper: page allocation failure. References: <00e901c67cad$fe9a9d90$1800a8c0@dcccs> <20060521081621.GA1151@taniwha.stupidest.org> <010801c67cb1$bc13fd00$1800a8c0@dcccs> <20060521084728.GA2535@taniwha.stupidest.org> <012201c67cb5$7a213800$1800a8c0@dcccs> <20060521091022.GA3468@taniwha.stupidest.org> <014601c67cb9$4f235f30$1800a8c0@dcccs> <20060521102642.GB5582@taniwha.stupidest.org> <44705699.3080401@yahoo.com.au> <024901c67cdf$1e1ce840$1800a8c0@dcccs> In-Reply-To: <024901c67cdf$1e1ce840$1800a8c0@dcccs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1105 Lines: 28 Haar J?nos wrote: > I did it allready, and it looks like solves the problem. > Yesterday i have more than 6 random reboots, and after i set from 3800 to > 16000 the min free limit, i have none at this point. :-) > > 15:51:45 up 7:21, 1 user, load average: 0.85, 0.79, 0.67 Oh that's good. It's sad that you had random reboots though :( > > Anyway, i interested about cache/buffer mechanism, because i have some > performance problems too, and i can see, these systems wastes the half of > memory instead of speeds up the operation. Yeah, as I said, block device's pagecache (aka buffercache) can't use highmem. If nbd can export regular files as block devices, or you use loop devices from regular files, that might help (or slow things down :P). -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/