From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MM VM patches was: 2.6.3-mm4
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 20:10:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4042FE0D.5030603@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4042F7E6.1050904@cyberone.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> There are a few things backed out now in 2.6.4-rc1-mm1, and quite a
> few other changes. I hope we can trouble you to test 2.6.4-rc1-mm1?
>
> Tell me, do you have highmem enabled on this system? If so, swapping
> might be explained by the batching patch. With it, a small highmem
> zone could possibly place quite a lot more pressure on a large
> ZONE_NORMAL.
>
> 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 sould do much better here.
Gah no. It would have the same problem actually, if that is indeed
what is happening.
It will take a bit more work to solve this in rc1-mm1. You would
probably want to explicitly use incremental min limits for kswapd.
(background info in kswapd-avoid-higher-zones.patch)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-26 2:55 2.6.3-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-02-26 8:22 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Alexander Hoogerhuis
2004-02-26 8:48 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-02-26 8:51 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Nuno Silva
2004-02-27 0:48 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Greg KH
2004-02-26 15:50 ` 2.6.3-mm4 David Martínez Moreno
2004-02-26 15:59 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-26 16:30 ` 2.6.3-mm4 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-02-26 18:59 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26 19:26 ` John Cherry
2004-02-26 18:50 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Matthias Hentges
2004-02-26 23:35 ` 2.6.3-mm4, sensors broken Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-27 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-27 8:58 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-27 0:11 ` 2.6.3-mm4 J.A. Magallon
2004-02-27 0:46 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Greg KH
2005-05-19 6:24 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Greg KH
2004-02-27 8:35 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Jean Delvare
2005-05-19 6:24 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Jean Delvare
2004-02-27 18:16 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Mike Fedyk
2005-05-19 6:24 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-27 19:59 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Jean Delvare
2005-05-19 6:24 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Jean Delvare
2004-02-29 7:51 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Mike Fedyk
2005-05-19 6:24 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-29 10:11 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Jean Delvare
2005-05-19 6:24 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Jean Delvare
2004-02-27 16:48 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2005-05-19 6:24 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-27 9:00 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-27 23:51 ` 2.6.3-mm4 Adrian Bunk
2004-03-01 8:25 ` MM VM patches was: 2.6.3-mm4 Mike Fedyk
2004-03-01 8:44 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-01 9:05 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-01 9:27 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-01 9:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-01 9:10 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-03-01 9:52 ` [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1-mm1: vm-kswapd-incremental-min (was Re: MM VM patches was: 2.6.3-mm4) Nick Piggin
2004-03-01 10:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-01 10:29 ` Nick Piggin
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