From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: out_of_memory() heuristic broken for different mem configurations
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:05:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011106170541.7c06a383.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111060714070.1988-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111060928010.9782-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111060714070.1988-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 07:25:40 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
wrote:
> Note how you also go for seconds with no IO and no shrinking of the
> caches, while shrink_cache() is apparently happy (and no, it does not take
> several seconds to traverse even a 16GB inactive queue, there's something
> else going on)
Did you time it? There is a lot of things going on in the shrink_cache loop
including swap_out, wait_on_page, locks, ...
It's not really simple traversing of a queue.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-06 11:40 out_of_memory() heuristic broken for different mem configurations Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-06 13:31 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-06 12:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-06 14:21 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-06 14:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-06 15:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-06 14:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-06 17:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-06 16:05 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
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