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

William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-29T03:15:41Z

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:58:13PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> The client/server thing is a bit misleading, what matters is the
> direction of the transfer. In the case I saw this morning, the G5 was
> the sender. In any case I was using the -W switch, which tells it not
> to use the rsync algorithm but just transfer the whole file. So I
> believe that rsync on the G5 side was just reading the file through
> once.
> I have also noticed similar behaviour after doing a bk pull on a
> kernel tree.
> The really strange thing is that the behaviour seems to get worse the
> more RAM you have. I haven't noticed any problem at all on my laptop
> with 768MB, only on the G5, which has 2.5GB. (The laptop is still on
> 2.6.2-rc3 though, so I will try a newer kernel on it.)

Looks like you've got a system with an issue. Any chance you could send
logs from an instrumented test run?

Thanks.

-- wli