From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id CC10E16B4A for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:51:22 -0300 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:51:22 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Want to allocate almost all the memory with no swap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Simon Derr Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Derr wrote: > Actually this is what happens under 2.4.2 : > when I launch the program, during about one minute kswapd eats 50% cpu, > and bdflush takes 2-5% cpu, > One minute later approx, they both stop eating the cpu and my process gets > almost 100% of the cpu (a PIII 733). > > The same happens if I kill and launch my program a second time. > > Sorry for the pollution I bring to your mailing list... No. Thanks for telling us. It is good to know that kswapd exhibits this strange behaviour. It's admiteddly not a high priority thing to fix, but it IS something to keep in mind. thanks, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/