From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from www.linux.org.uk (parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk [195.92.249.252]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984E9482A for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:07:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from willy by www.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 157MAq-0001gJ-00; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 20:07:28 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:07:28 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Chuck Slivkoff Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Forcing PA-Linux to swap / do_page_fault() Message-ID: <20010605200728.S7349@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <3B180D83.F5479D0B@hp.com> <3B1D1D56.14424ACA@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3B1D1D56.14424ACA@hp.com>; from charles_slivkoff@hp.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:56:38PM -0400 Sender: List-ID: 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.