Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

Rik van Riel
2001-06-09T07:56:03Z

On 6 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> writes:
>
> > The problem I reported is not that 2.4 uses huge amounts of swap but
> > that trying to recover that swap off of disk under 2.4 can leave the
> > machine in an entirely unresponsive state, while 2.2 handles identical
> > situations gracefully.
>
> The interesting thing from other reports is that it appears to be
> kswapd using up CPU resources.

This part is being worked on, expect a solution for this thing
soon...

Rik
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