From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@ucsd.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature?
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:15:46 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199811301115.LAA02884@dax.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8767c0q55d.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr>
Hi,
On 27 Nov 1998 20:58:38 +0100, Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>
said:
> Yesterday, I was trying to understand the very same problem you're
> speaking of. Sometimes kswapd decides to swapout lots of things,
> sometimes not.
> I applied your patch, but it didn't solve the problem.
> To be honest, things are now even slightly worse. :(
Well, after a few days of running with the patched 2.1.130, I have never
seen evil cache growth and the performance has been great throughout.
If you can give me a reproducible way of observing bad worst-case
behaviour, I'd love to see it, but right now, things like
wc /usr/bin/*
run just fine with no swapping of any running apps.
--Stephen
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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1998-11-27 16:02 ` [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature? Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-27 17:19 ` Chip Salzenberg
1998-11-27 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-11-27 19:58 ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 11:15 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1998-11-30 23:13 ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 12:37 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 15:12 ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 19:29 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 22:27 ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 23:11 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 20:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1998-11-30 22:28 ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-28 7:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-30 11:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-30 15:08 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 21:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-30 22:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
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