Re: Keeping mmap'ed files in core regression in 2.6.7-rc

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

On 2004.06.16 05:16, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > According to Nick Piggin:
> > 
> >>Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>The patch below indeed fixes this problem. Now most of the mmap'ed files
> >>>are actually kept in memory and RSS is around 600 MB again:
> >>
> >>OK good. Cc'ing Andrew.
> > 
> > 
> > I've built a small test app that creates the same I/O pattern and ran it
> > on 2.6.6, 2.6.7-rc3 and 2.6.7-rc3+patch and running that confirms it,
> > though not as dramatically as the real-life application.
> > 
> 
> Can you send the test app over?
> Andrew, do you have any ideas about how to fix this so far?

I'll have to come back on this later - I'm about to go on
vacation, and there's some other stuff that needs to be
taken care of first.

Mike.
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