On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 18:48:51 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Sami Farin wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:26 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> ...
*shrug*
>>> The attached patch should make sure kswapd does not free an
>>> excessive number of pages in zone_normal just because the
>>> pages
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 18:48:51 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
Sami Farin wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:26 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
...
*shrug*
The attached patch should make sure kswapd does not free an
excessive number of pages in zone_normal just because the
pages in zone_highmem
Sami Farin wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:26 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
...
*shrug*
The attached patch should make sure kswapd does not free an
excessive number of pages in zone_normal just because the
pages in zone_highmem are difficult to free.
It does give kswapd a large margin to
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:26 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
...
>> *shrug*
>
> The attached patch should make sure kswapd does not free an
> excessive number of pages in zone_normal just because the
> pages in zone_highmem are difficult to free.
>
> It does give kswapd a large margin to continue
Sami Farin wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 21:37:35 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
Is the system trying to evict pages like crazy when your
system becomes unusable?
I think so..
If so, I wonder if kswapd is simply doing the wrong thing
and trying to evict data from all zones, simply because the
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 21:37:35 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Sami Farin wrote:
>> Using SMP kernel 2.6.22.6pre-CFS-v20.5 on Pentium D (IA-32).
>> I think this bug (or whatever you want to call it) got triggered
>> when you first allocate several megabytes of memory in a kernel module
>> and then
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 21:37:35 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
Sami Farin wrote:
Using SMP kernel 2.6.22.6pre-CFS-v20.5 on Pentium D (IA-32).
I think this bug (or whatever you want to call it) got triggered
when you first allocate several megabytes of memory in a kernel module
and then free
Sami Farin wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 21:37:35 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
Is the system trying to evict pages like crazy when your
system becomes unusable?
I think so..
If so, I wonder if kswapd is simply doing the wrong thing
and trying to evict data from all zones, simply because the
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:26 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
...
*shrug*
The attached patch should make sure kswapd does not free an
excessive number of pages in zone_normal just because the
pages in zone_highmem are difficult to free.
It does give kswapd a large margin to continue putting
Sami Farin wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:26 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
...
*shrug*
The attached patch should make sure kswapd does not free an
excessive number of pages in zone_normal just because the
pages in zone_highmem are difficult to free.
It does give kswapd a large margin to
Sami Farin wrote:
Using SMP kernel 2.6.22.6pre-CFS-v20.5 on Pentium D (IA-32).
I think this bug (or whatever you want to call it) got triggered
when you first allocate several megabytes of memory in a kernel module
and then free them, and then run e.g. X and when memory gets tight,
you end up
Sami Farin wrote:
Using SMP kernel 2.6.22.6pre-CFS-v20.5 on Pentium D (IA-32).
I think this bug (or whatever you want to call it) got triggered
when you first allocate several megabytes of memory in a kernel module
and then free them, and then run e.g. X and when memory gets tight,
you end up
Using SMP kernel 2.6.22.6pre-CFS-v20.5 on Pentium D (IA-32).
I think this bug (or whatever you want to call it) got triggered
when you first allocate several megabytes of memory in a kernel module
and then free them, and then run e.g. X and when memory gets tight,
you end up with this situation...
Using SMP kernel 2.6.22.6pre-CFS-v20.5 on Pentium D (IA-32).
I think this bug (or whatever you want to call it) got triggered
when you first allocate several megabytes of memory in a kernel module
and then free them, and then run e.g. X and when memory gets tight,
you end up with this situation...
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