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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: [VM] 2.4.14/15-pre4 too "swap-happy"?
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In article <20011119123125.B1439@asooo.flowerfire.com>,
Ken Brownfield  <brownfld@irridia.com> wrote:
>Linus, so far 2.4.15-pre4 with your patch does not reproduce the kswapd
>issue with Oracle, but I do need to perform more deterministic tests
>before I can fully sign off on that.
>
>BTW, didn't your patch go into -pre5?  Or is there an additional mod in
>-pre6 that we should try?

You're right, it's probably in pre5 already..

Anyway, it would be interesting to see if the patch by Andrea (I think
he called it "zone-watermarks") that changes the zone allocators to take
other zones into account makes a difference. See separate thread with
the subject line "15pre6aa1 (fixes google VM problem)". 

(I think the patch is overly complex as-is, but I htink the _ideas_ in
it are fine).

			Linus
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