From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <008301c1a4c1$a79f8fa0$3c00a8c0@baazee.com> Reply-To: "Anish Srivastava" From: "Anish Srivastava" Subject: kernel 2.4.17 with -rmap VM patch ROCKS!!! Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:56:54 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-ID: Hi! I installed kernel 2.4.17 on my SMP server with 8CPU's and 8GB RAM and lets just say that whenever the entire physical memory was utilised the box would topple over...with kswapd running a havoc on CPU utilization So to avoid losing control I had to reboot every 8 hours. But, it all changed after I applied Rik van Riels 2.4.17-rmap-11c patch Now, the box is happily running for the past 3 days under heavy load without any problems. The RAM utilization is always at about 95% + but the system doesnt swap at all.....kswapd is running all the time and freeing up main memory for other processes. I am quite happy with the performance of the box........and highly recommend Rik's patches for anyone else facing similar problems Thanks to all you guys for helping me out.... Best regards, Anish Srivastava Linux Rulez!!! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/