From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:10:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:09:56 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:51066 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:09:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:09:23 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: "G. Hugh Song" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Swap strangeness using 2.4.5pre2aa1 Message-ID: <20010523210923.A730@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <3B0BFE90.CE148B7@kjist.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B0BFE90.CE148B7@kjist.ac.kr>; from ghsong@kjist.ac.kr on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:48AM +0900 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:48AM +0900, G. Hugh Song wrote: > The following is the output from "free" > ========================================================================= > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 1023128 1015640 7488 0 544 > 948976 > -/+ buffers/cache: 66120 957008 > Swap: 1021936 1021936 0 > ========================================================================== I get the same with egcs. To me it sounds broken VM (I shouldn't have changed anything that can confuse the VM so this should be reproducible with 2.4.5pre5 vanilla and infact you also said you reproduced previously in 2.4.4). Is it possible you booted with 'mem=something'? It seems to me that when I boot with 'mem=something' the VM bad beahaviour become more visible. > I think I should back down to Kernel 2.2.20pre2aa1. definitely a good idea until somebody fixes the VM in mainline. Andrea