From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA20342 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D7960FC.3E2C890A@digeo.com> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:14:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: inactive_dirty list References: <3D79131E.837F08B3@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > > Rik, it seems that the time has come... > > I was doing some testing overnight with mem=1024m. Page reclaim > was pretty inefficient at that level: kswapd consumed 6% of CPU > on a permanent basis (workload was heavy dbench plus looping > make -j6 bzImage). kswapd was reclaiming only 3% of the pages > which it was looking at. I have a silly feeling that setting DEF_PRIORITY to "12" will simply fix this. Duh. -- 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/