Re: Want to allocate almost all the memory with no swap

Rik van Riel
2001-04-19T17:51:22Z

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Derr wrote:

> Actually this is what happens under 2.4.2 :
> when I launch the program, during about one minute kswapd eats 50% cpu,
> and bdflush takes 2-5% cpu,
> One minute later approx, they both stop eating the cpu and my process gets
> almost 100% of the cpu (a PIII 733).
>
> The same happens if I kill and launch my program a second time.
>
> Sorry for the pollution I bring to your mailing list...

No. Thanks for telling us. It is good to know that kswapd
exhibits this strange behaviour. It's admiteddly not a high
priority thing to fix, but it IS something to keep in mind.

thanks,

Rik
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