Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev:
> OK that's good to know. At this stage it is only
> working around the intermediate symptoms, and we
> might want a different fix for 2.6.11...
>
> So hopefully you'll be able to test a patch or two
> if you get time.
Sure. Just drop me a mail.
I'm glad i
Terje Fåberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev:
> I'll continue to do the same things I did yesterday
> before kswapd started to spin.
Looks very good so far. I am unable to reproduce the
bad kswapd behaviour with your patch, Nick.
To double-check I booted into the old kernel
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev:
> No none yet, which is what we should get to the
> bottom of. I must be overlooking something, but the
> only ways I can see should be due to transient
> conditions like page locked or under writeback.
> laptop_mode?
>
> Terje, what is /proc/sys/vm/lapto
Terje Fåberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev:
> The kernel is compiling right now, but I cannot
> reboot this machine until six or seven o'clock
> tonight (CET). I will report then.
Well, well, I rebooted the same kernel, now with
MAGIC-SYSRQ enabled. At first the kswapd-eff
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev:
> Can you post about 10 seconds of `vmstat 1` output
> while this is happening?
>
> Also:
> `cat /proc/vmstat > pre ; sleep 10 ; cat
> /proc/vmstat > post`
> while this is happening, and send the pre and post
> files.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo also might be he
I recently upgraded my desktop from 2.4.28 to
2.6.10. Even under moderate memory pressure kswapd
regularly eats almost all available cpu time
whenever there is a little more IO throughput,
like copying large files. The system is extremely
sluggish during this. The system load goes up to
7.5 or m
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