Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

Marc Singer
2004-04-29T14:49:47Z

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:26:17PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Yes it includes something which should help that. Along with
> the "split active lists" that I mentioned might help your
> problem when WLI first came up with the change to the
> swappiness calculation for your problem.
>
> It would be great if you had time to give my patch a run.
> It hasn't been widely stress tested yet though, so no
> production systems, of course!

As I said, I'm game to have a go. The trouble was that it doesn't
apply. My development kernel has an RMK patch applied that seems to
conflict with the MM patch on which you depend.