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

Nick Piggin
2004-04-29T10:44:31Z

Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:20:47PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
>
>>Russell King is working on a lot of things for the MMU code in ARM.
>>I'm waiting to see where he ends up. I believe he's planning on
>>removing the lazy PTE release logic.
>
>
> Essentially it came to a grinding halt due to the shere size of the
> task of sorting out the crappy includes, which is far to large for a
> stable kernel.
>
> I may go back to the original problem and sort it a different way,
> but for the time being, I'm occupied in other areas.
>

Anyway, Marc said he tried flushing the tlb and that didn't
solve his problem.

The problem might be the one identified in the thread:
2.6.6-rc{1,2} bad VM/NFS interaction in case of dirty page writeback