From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Alastair Stevens <alastair@altruxsolutions.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-ck1: swap mayhem under UT2004
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:52:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098499957.9092.19.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41799FE0.1020403@kolivas.org>
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 10:03 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Any ideas? Any more info required?
>
> I've seen reports of this happening since 2.6.9 _even on mainline_.
> Something seems very sick with kswapd where it consumes massive amounts
> of cpu. Can you reproduce without any -ck patches? Others have already
> done so, but it seems to happen earlier with -ck.
One thing that comes to mind immediately is AM's patch to optimize the
swap space layout:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/9/254
This is definitely in mainline now, not sure when it went in. Try
backing it out.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-23 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 22:46 2.6.9-ck1: swap mayhem under UT2004 Alastair Stevens
2004-10-23 0:03 ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-23 2:52 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-10-23 5:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-23 5:38 ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-23 6:00 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-23 16:22 ` Alastair Stevens
2004-10-24 2:59 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-24 10:38 ` Alastair Stevens
2004-10-24 12:28 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-25 16:31 ` misty-
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