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

Karl Vogel
2004-08-31T18:24:31Z

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 18:52, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Is there a concept of a minimum working set size of an application? (kind
> > of the reverse of an RSS limit)
>
> Not really. A hungry memory app can starve the rest of the system.

I noticed that a few times on our spamassassin box :-)

> One thing: what kernel version are you using?

2.6.9-rc1-bk3

> I've seen extreme decreases in performance (interactivity) with hungry
> memory apps with Rik's swap token code.

Decrease?!