From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C5076C1.DDEE200B@zip.com.au> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:04:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.17 with -rmap VM patch ROCKS!!! References: <008301c1a4c1$a79f8fa0$3c00a8c0@baazee.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Anish Srivastava Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-ID: 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? - -- 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/