From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:56:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:56:30 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:10043 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:56:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:56:05 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Rik van Riel Cc: German Gomez Garcia , Mailing List Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15 Message-ID: <20010618155605.D13836@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010618143559.A23006@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0300 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 Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > either apply this patch to 2.4.5ac15: > > > > ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.5aa3/00_fix-unusable-vm-on-alpha-1 > > That one has already been fixed in -pre3 and I think also wrong, I merged it with Linus in pre2 not pre3. > in -ac14+ kernels (haven't verified the -ac kernels, though). wrong -ac15 is still missing it. > which is now a lot closer to being balanced. It's not a bug, wrong, that was a core showstopper bug and it renders any machine with a zone empty unusable. (it has nothing to do with beauty or stats) Andrea