Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed

Daniel Stone
2000-05-09T07:56:10Z

Rik,
That's astonishing, I'm sure, but think of us poor bastards who DON'T have
an SMP machine with >1gig of RAM.

This is a P120, 32meg. Lately, fine has degenerated into bad into worse
into absolutely obscene. It even kills my PGSQL compiles.
And I killed *EVERYTHING* there was to kill.
The only processes were init, bash and gcc/cc1. VM still wiped it out.

d

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On 8 May 2000, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>
> > BTW, this patch mostly *removes* cruft recently added, and
> > returns to the known state of operation.
>
> Which doesn't work.
>
> Think of a 1GB machine which has a 16MB DMA zone,
> a 950MB normal zone and a very small HIGHMEM zone.
>
> With the old VM code the HIGHMEM zone would be
> swapping like mad while the other two zones are
> idle.
>
> It's Not That Kind Of Party(tm)
>
> cheers,
>
> Rik
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