Re: Rising io_load results Re: 2.5.63-mm1

Andrew Morton
2003-02-28T00:10:21Z

Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:01 am, Dave McCracken wrote:
> > --On Thursday, February 27, 2003 13:44:03 -0800 Andrew Morton
> >
> > <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >> Mapped: 4294923652 kB
> > >
> > > Well that's gotta hurt. This metric is used in making writeback
> > > decisions. Probably the objrmap patch.
> >
> > Oops. You're right. Here's a patch to fix it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> This looks better after a run:
>
> MemTotal: 256156 kB
> ...
> Mapped: 4546752 kB

No, it is still wrong. Mapped cannot exceed MemTotal.