Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

Nick Piggin
2004-12-07T22:53:30Z

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.
>
>

You're using 2.6.9, right? 2.6.10 should be better in this regard.