From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261246AbVFNQnK (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:43:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261253AbVFNQnJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:43:09 -0400 Received: from mail16.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.197]:3542 "EHLO mail16.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261246AbVFNQmJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:42:09 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Swapping in 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.11 on a desktop system Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:42:00 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: Alexander Gretencord References: <200506141653.32093.arutha@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200506141653.32093.arutha@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1983641.vlfaokoqK0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506150242.02606.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1983641.vlfaokoqK0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:53, Alexander Gretencord wrote: > Hi, > > [1] With swappiness = 60 I either get swap hell (2.6.10) or the oom killer > kicks in (2.6.11.11) > > [2] I upgraded to 2.6.11.11 from 2.6.8.1 yesterday and tried to compile > something. After some time I come back and the compile has aborted because > the oom killer killed the compiler process. There is no additional use of > swap space (although some applications that were also running could have > been swapped out). There was a similar bugreport with this behaviour some > time ago for 2.6.11.8 but that one included a swappiness value of 0, i got > 60. > I have 512MB of RAM and another 512MB of swap. Try the mapped watermark patch from -ck on 2.6.11* http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck10/patches/mapped_watermark3.diff Cheers, Con --nextPart1983641.vlfaokoqK0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCrwjaZUg7+tp6mRURAnOTAJ9JGoWpHPJt/YBNF6pU7A5PYpqlSQCfVM9s 9iQlTkSlbu5ibkKHOedUPCw= =0ghq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1983641.vlfaokoqK0--