Re: Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - nr_requests > 1024 on swap partition

Karl Vogel
2004-08-31T19:36:38Z

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 19:25, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Can you try the same tests with 2.6.8.1 and check the difference, pretty
> please?

You forgot the sugar on top :) Anyway 2.6.8.1 also seems to behave now.. I do
get a few 'kswapd0: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20' but the
system doesn't OOM kill and it recovers after the expunge. Although I think
it recovers a tad slower than 2.6.9-rc1-bk3