Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines

Rik van Riel
2003-12-16T00:17:29Z

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> It could well be that something is simply misbehaving in there

I have my suspicions about inter-zone balancing in 2.6.

Something seems wrong, but I can't quite put my finger
on it yet. This should have quite some impact in the
1 - 4 GB range and a test (done by somebody else, I can't
give you the details yet unfortunately) has shown there
is a problem.

I'm working on it and should come up with a patch soon.

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