From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:37:26 +0200 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8 Message-ID: <20000915213726.A9965@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from gandalf@wlug.westbo.se on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:28:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Martin Josefsson Cc: Rik van Riel , "David S. Miller" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com List-ID: Martin Josefsson wrote: > I've been trying to get my machine to swap but that seems hard with this > new patch :) I have 0kB of swap used after 8h uptime, and I have been > compiling, moving files between partitions and running md5sum on files > (that was a big problem before, everything ended up on the active list and > the swapping started and brought my machine down to a crawl) No preemptive page-outs? 0kB swap means if you suddenly need a lot of memory, inactive application pages have to be written to disk first. There are always inactive application pages. Maybe the stats are inaccurate. -- Jamie -- 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/