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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
	Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: More on O_STREAMING (goodby read pauses)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:06:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA607DC.7F6DADB9@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021010225052.GE1676@werewolf.able.es

"J.A. Magallon" wrote:
> 
> ...
> I look at gnome system monitor graph for mem. I start with a tiny amount of
> used memory. Start the 1Gb read without O_STREAM, the blue area in monitor
> starts to grow linearly in time, stars (*) from the reader appear at a
> given rate, and as soon as it touches the top limit the stars stop, the disk
> begins to thrash, and swap space used grows. After a 2-4 seconds, the stars
> go again with the same rate. Tell me what is this but swapper writing pages,
> and reading the new pages for my giga.
> 

That's fairly rude behaviour for a 2.4 kernel.  Sounds like 2.5 ;)

What kernel is that?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-10 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-09 22:23 More on O_STREAMING (goodby read pauses) J.A. Magallon
2002-10-09 22:43 ` Robert Love
2002-10-10  3:40   ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10 14:39     ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-10 18:01       ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10 22:50         ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-10 23:06           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-10-11  2:04           ` Mark Mielke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-11  8:13 Samium Gromoff

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