On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Oh just run a 32GB SMP system with sparsely freeable pages and lots of > > allocs and frees and you will see it too. F.e try Linus tree and mlock > > a large portion of the memory and then see the fun starting. See also > > Rik's list of pathological cases on this. > > Ah, so your problem is lots of unreclaimable pages. There are heaps > of things we can try to reduce the rate at which we scan those.
Well this is one possible sympton of the basic issue of having too many page structs. I wonder how long we can patch things up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
