Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:47:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:47:20 -0400 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:39697 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:47:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3D6FBE41.3BC516BD@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:49:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-rc3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" CC: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG+FIX] 2.4 buggercache sucks References: <200208301121.06437.roy@karlsbakk.net> <30940000.1030727954@flay> 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: 1025 Lines: 20 "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > >> Was your workload doing lots of reads, or lots of writes? Or both? > > > > I was downloading large files @ ~ 4Mbps from 20-50 clients - filesize ~3GB > > the box has 1GB memory minus (no highmem) - so - 900 megs. After some time it > > starts swapping and it OOMs. Same happens with several userspace httpd's > > Mmmm .... not quite sure which way round to read that. Presumably the box > that was the server fell over, and the clients are fine? So the workload that's > causing problems is doing predominantly reads? If so, I suggest you tear down > Andrew's patch to read side only, and submit that ... I get the feeling that would > be acceptable, and would solve your problem. But we still don't know what the problem _is_. It's very weird. - 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/