From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux machines dieing in swap storms
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:34:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025143459.64794cc3@bree.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193325641.5776.21.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> wrote:
> Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll happily
> hack my kernels with a workaround if need be.
I can't see any easy hacks or workarounds to fix the issue in the
current MM, except maybe activate the OOM killer if the amount of
page cache and buffer cache is really low and swap is full...
In the longer run, I'm working on:
http://linux-mm.org/PageReplacementDesign
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 15:20 Linux machines dieing in swap storms Richard Purdie
2007-10-25 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-25 18:28 ` Richard Purdie
2007-10-25 18:34 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-10-25 19:55 ` Simon Arlott
2007-10-26 2:08 ` David Newall
2007-10-26 15:14 ` Lenar Lõhmus
[not found] <9icP2-2hb-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <9ifML-6Xs-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-10-26 3:56 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-10-26 4:03 ` Rik van Riel
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