From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 04:55:36 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106090455050.14934-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ofs15tm0.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
On 6 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> writes:
>
> > The problem I reported is not that 2.4 uses huge amounts of swap but
> > that trying to recover that swap off of disk under 2.4 can leave the
> > machine in an entirely unresponsive state, while 2.2 handles identical
> > situations gracefully.
>
> The interesting thing from other reports is that it appears to be
> kswapd using up CPU resources.
This part is being worked on, expect a solution for this thing
soon...
Rik
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[not found] ` <3b204fe5.4014698@mail.mbay.net>
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2001-06-06 18:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-06 19:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-06 19:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-07 4:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-07 6:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-07 7:28 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-07 7:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-07 8:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-07 17:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-07 17:43 ` Please test: workaround to help swapoff behaviour Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-06 19:28 ` Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps Derek Glidden
2001-06-09 7:55 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-06-07 14:22 Bulent Abali
2001-06-07 15:38 ` Mike Galbraith
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