From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Chuck Slivkoff <charles_slivkoff@hp.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Forcing PA-Linux to swap / do_page_fault()
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:07:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010605200728.S7349@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B1D1D56.14424ACA@hp.com>; from charles_slivkoff@hp.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:56:38PM -0400
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:56:38PM -0400, Chuck Slivkoff wrote:
> I've noticed a problem that I believe is might be related to the kernel
> not being able to use swap space. I've never seen swap utilization > 0
> and suspect that something might be seriously wrong. Here's an example
> of the kernel error:
Hmm... none of my systems are using swap either; I had noticed this before,
but never really thought much of it. This has to be a moderately recent
breakage because I know jsm has tested swapping.
> Does anyone have a good example of test to force the system to use swap?
Sure. malloc 256MB, then dirty each page.
--
Revolutions do not require corporate support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-05 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-01 21:47 [parisc-linux] Upgrade path from 0.6 to 0.9? Chuck Slivkoff
2001-06-01 21:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-06-01 22:54 ` Chuck Slivkoff
2001-06-05 17:56 ` [parisc-linux] Forcing PA-Linux to swap / do_page_fault() Chuck Slivkoff
2001-06-05 19:07 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2001-06-05 20:30 ` Chuck Slivkoff
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