From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Anish Srivastava <anishs@vsnl.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.17 with -rmap VM patch ROCKS!!!
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:04:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C5076C1.DDEE200B@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008301c1a4c1$a79f8fa0$3c00a8c0@baazee.com>
Anish Srivastava wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I installed kernel 2.4.17 on my SMP server with 8CPU's and 8GB RAM
> and lets just say that whenever the entire physical memory was utilised
> the box would topple over...with kswapd running a havoc on CPU utilization
> So to avoid losing control I had to reboot every 8 hours.
>
The fact that the current stable version of the Linux kernel
can only achieve an eight-hour uptime on this class of machine
is a fairly serious problem, don't we all agree?
We need a fix for 2.4.18.
Did you test the -aa patches?
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2002-01-24 10:26 Anish Srivastava
2002-01-24 21:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-25 8:32 ` Anish Srivastava
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