Re: [PATCH] Re: kswapd

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

Kanoj Sarcar writes:
> On a more serious note, I know too little about the application load 
> that Rik/Russell is talking about to understand what's going on, but
> I have the vague suspicion that Rik's patch is just a part fix to the 
> problem, and that maybe we might be doing too many kswapd wakes ups
> via the balancing code. 

My situation is very simple - one copy of xaudio playing mp3s.  Nothing
else.  No swapping.  No nothing.  Just one xaudio (and the occasional
cron and atd running) playing mp3s from a NFS server.  Load average < 1.
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