Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:43:28 +0100
From: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swapping in 2.6.24-rc5-git3
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Yes, that's quite unpleasant. How much memory do you have? If you have
> some time, you can try playing with the code in mm/vmscan.c to find out
> what's happening in your case (putting some debugging output in
> shrink_active_list() etc...

I think it is a regression in recent rc versions as I use 2.6.24-xx kernels on
my new laptop from the very beginnig I have the laptopt and I did not notice
such behaviour before.

I have 1 GB RAM and I was coping a 2GB file from the network to the laptop.
After the operation, 600MB of the swap area has been consumed. At the
beginning of the copy, the swap area was empty.

-- 
Luk?? Hejtm?nek
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