Re: [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature?

Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30T22:29:12Z

Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:

> I am now trying:
> if (buffer_over_borrow() || pgcache_over_borrow() ||
> atomic_read(&nr_async_pages)
> shrink_mmap(i, gfp_mask);
>
> Note that this doesn't stop kswapd from swapping out so
> swapout performance shouldn't suffer. It does however
> free up memory so kswapd should _terminate_ and keep the
> amount of I/O done to a sane level.

This still slows down swapping somewhat (20-30%) in my tests.

>
> Note that I'm running with my experimentas swapin readahead
> patch enabled so the system should be stressed even more
> than normally :)
>

I tried your swapin_readahead patch but it didn't work right:

swap_duplicate at c012054b: entry 00011904, unused page
swap_duplicate at c012054b: entry 002c8c00, unused page
swap_duplicate at c012054b: entry 00356700, unused page
swap_duplicate at c012054b: entry 00370f00, unused page
swap_duplicate at c012054b: entry 0038d000, unused page
swap_duplicate at c012054b: entry 0039d100, unused page
swap_duplicate at c012054b: entry 0000b500, unused page

c012054b is read_swap_cache_async()

Memory gets eaten when I bang MM, and after sometime system blocks. I
also had one FS corruption, thanks to that. Didn't investigate
further.

Do you have a newer version of the patch?

Regards,
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