Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:37:21AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Yes, this is expected behaviour with -ac14, -pre3 and newer. > > If that means anything that doesn't happen here based on pre3. It doesn't happen here either. Even with (ever so slig

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread German Gomez Garcia
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:35:54PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:41:02PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > > > > so, if there is another way to get that info

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:44:29PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:54:09AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > YOUR PATCH fixes a real bug, true. But that wasn't > > > what German was complaining about ;) > > > > How did you kn

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:54:09AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > YOUR PATCH fixes a real bug, true. But that wasn't > > what German was complaining about ;) > > How did you know that before he made his first reply to my email? Because he started th

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:54:09AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > YOUR PATCH fixes a real bug, true. But that wasn't > what German was complaining about ;) How did you know that before he made his first reply to my email? Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > which is now a lot closer to being balanced. It's not a bug, > > wrong, that was a core showstopper bug and it renders any > machine with a zone empty unusable. (it has nothing to do with > beauty or stats) YOUR PATCH fixes a real bug, true. But

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > either apply this patch to 2.4.5ac15: > > > > >ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.5aa3/00_fix-unusable-vm-on-alpha-1 > > That one has alre

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:37:21AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > Yes, this is expected behaviour with -ac14, -pre3 and newer. If that means anything that doesn't happen here based on pre3. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:34:43PM +0200, Luigi Genoni wrote: > Maybe there could be some HW related reason because of which it fixed for yes, most probably he didn't had any zone empty so the fix couldn't make a difference for him. German, can you confirm? (if you don't know what it means just s

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > either apply this patch to 2.4.5ac15: > > >ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.5aa3/00_fix-unusable-vm-on-alpha-1 That one has already been fixed in -pre3 and I think also in -ac14+ kernels (haven't verifi

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > I've running 2.4.5-ac15 for almost a day (22 hours) and I found > some strange behaviour of the kswap, at least it was not present in > 2.4.5-ac9. The swap memory increase with time as the cache dedicated > memory also increase, that is swap

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Luigi Genoni
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:14:01PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've running 2.4.5-ac15 for almost a day (22 hours) and I found > > > some strange behaviour of

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread German Gomez Garcia
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:14:01PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've running 2.4.5-ac15 for almost a day (22 hours) and I found > > some strange behaviour of the kswap, at least it was not present in > > 2.4.5-ac9. The

Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:14:01PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote: > Hello, > > I've running 2.4.5-ac15 for almost a day (22 hours) and I found > some strange behaviour of the kswap, at least it was not present in > 2.4.5-ac9. The swap memory increase with time as the cache dedicate

Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-18 Thread German Gomez Garcia
Hello, I've running 2.4.5-ac15 for almost a day (22 hours) and I found some strange behaviour of the kswap, at least it was not present in 2.4.5-ac9. The swap memory increase with time as the cache dedicated memory also increase, that is swapping process at a very fast rate, even