From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Vogel Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - nr_requests > 1024 on swap partition Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50:07 +0200 References: <20040829141718.GD10955@suse.de> <20040830165100.535e68e5.akpm@osdl.org> <20040831102342.GA3207@logos.cnet> In-Reply-To: <20040831102342.GA3207@logos.cnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408311950.09641.karl.vogel@seagha.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Andrew Morton , karl.vogel@pandora.be, axboe@suse.de, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 12:23, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:51:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > What you think of this, which tries to address your comments > > > > Suggest you pass the scan_control structure down into pageout(), stick > > `inflight' into struct scan_control and use some flag in scan_control to > > Done the scan_control modifications. Took the patch for a spin.. it seems to behave ok here! No more OOMs. Quick question: is it to be expected that when I run a calloc(500Mb) on my system, when X is up and amarok is streaming live audio, that everything (apps) freezes for a few seconds until the calloc task exits?! The apps probably get pushed out to swap, but I would think that since these applications are running, that their pages are kept on the active list?! Setting swappiness to 0 doesn't make a difference. Is there a concept of a minimum working set size of an application? (kind of the reverse of an RSS limit) -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org