Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

Derek Glidden
2001-06-06T19:40:15Z

Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> Can you try the patch below to see if it helps? If you watch
> with vmstat, you should see swap shrinking after your test.
> Let is shrink a while and then see how long swapoff takes.
> Under a normal load, it'll munch a handfull of them at least
> once a second and keep them from getting annoying. (theory;)

Hi Mike,
I'll give that patch a spin this evening after work when I have time to
patch and recompile the kernel.

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