Re: [2.4] heavy-load under swap space shortage

Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-15T22:47:25Z

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:41:24AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
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> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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> >Either that or you can choose to do some overwork and to shrink from all
> >the zones removing this break:
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> > if (ret >= nr_pages)
> > break;
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> >but as far as I can tell, the 50% waste of cache in a 2G box can happen
> >in 2.6.4 and it won't happen in 2.4.x.
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> Yeah you are right. Some patches have since gone into 2.6-bk and
> this is one of the things fixed up.

sounds great, thanks!