Re: a Linux swap storm

Jesper Juhl
2006-05-07T20:37:36Z

On 5/7/06, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:
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> At this moment the machine became unusable for twenty minutes
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> The machine is vanilla 2.6.14, 256MB, 550MB swap.
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> The effect is reproducible.
>
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Reproducible - nice.
Have you tried it with a newer kernel like 2.6.16.14 or
2.6.17-rc3-git13 ? Could be interresting to see if it has already
been fixed since 2.6.14... in any case, it's one more datapoint :-)

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