From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Message-Id: <200003271834.TAA09757@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: kswapd Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:34:13 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <200003270800.AAA65612@google.engr.sgi.com> from "Kanoj Sarcar" at Mar 27, 2000 12:00:21 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Kanoj Sarcar Cc: riel@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: Kanoj Sarcar writes: > On a more serious note, I know too little about the application load > that Rik/Russell is talking about to understand what's going on, but > I have the vague suspicion that Rik's patch is just a part fix to the > problem, and that maybe we might be doing too many kswapd wakes ups > via the balancing code. My situation is very simple - one copy of xaudio playing mp3s. Nothing else. No swapping. No nothing. Just one xaudio (and the occasional cron and atd running) playing mp3s from a NFS server. Load average < 1. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/