Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-03T12:18:49Z

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:18:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > All I can say is "experiment with it".
> >
> > It might be useful to renice kswapd so that userspace processes do not
> > increase its latency.
>
> Hmm, increasing the min free kb to 64MB and renicing kswapd to -8 seems to
> solve the issue. However, for me it seems as not so good solution mainly because
> 2.6.6-bk4 kernel is just ok without any tweeks.

Forgot one more think. Renicing kswapd resulted in xfsbufd oops at reboot.
(Regarding preeption)

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Lukáš Hejtmánek