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 20:24:31 +0200 References: <20040829141718.GD10955@suse.de> <200408311950.09641.karl.vogel@seagha.com> <20040831165250.GD11149@logos.cnet> In-Reply-To: <20040831165250.GD11149@logos.cnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408312024.32158.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 18:52, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Is there a concept of a minimum working set size of an application? (kind > > of the reverse of an RSS limit) > > Not really. A hungry memory app can starve the rest of the system. I noticed that a few times on our spamassassin box :-) > One thing: what kernel version are you using? 2.6.9-rc1-bk3 > I've seen extreme decreases in performance (interactivity) with hungry > memory apps with Rik's swap token code. Decrease?! -- 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