From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: excessive swapping
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:39:39 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040928153939.GB12494@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094104952.4339.10.camel@rivendell.home.local>
Florin,
You should get much better behaviour in 2.6.8-rc2-mm4 due
to Nick's kswapd "aggressiveness" fix.
Please try it!
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:02:32PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 23:40, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > I am running 2.6.8-rc4 with Ingo's voluntary preempt patch O5, on Fedora
> > 2.
> > At the same time, i'm processing some DVDs that i made - i'm extracting
> > titles from a DVD to a dedicated hard-drive, saving audio and video
> > tracks, etc with transcode-0.6.12 ( http://www.transcoding.org ). All
> > that means reading/writing from/to large files on /dev/dvd and /dev/hde
> > at high speeds.
> > The system is swapping excessively. There's no way the total size of the
> > applications exceeds the size of RAM. There's plenty of room to spare,
> > yet 16% of the 530MB of swap is used.
>
> I am running now 2.6.8.1 with Ingo's O8 and Con Kolivas' hard swappiness
> patch (an old version, sorry). Under the same conditions described
> above, there is 0% swap usage.
>
> The CK hard swappiness patch solved the issue for me. The system works
> without any problems whatsoever.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-13 6:40 excessive swapping Florin Andrei
2004-08-13 6:44 ` Florin Andrei
2004-08-13 7:10 ` Florin Andrei
2004-08-13 7:24 ` dvd ripping causing: " bert hubert
2004-08-13 9:00 ` Matt Heler
2004-08-13 12:10 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-13 7:10 ` bert hubert
2004-09-02 6:02 ` Florin Andrei
2004-09-28 15:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
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