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From: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swapping in 2.6.24-rc5-git3
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:43:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071217204328.GE14091@ics.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071217171532.GK6979@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Yes, that's quite unpleasant. How much memory do you have? If you have
> some time, you can try playing with the code in mm/vmscan.c to find out
> what's happening in your case (putting some debugging output in
> shrink_active_list() etc...

I think it is a regression in recent rc versions as I use 2.6.24-xx kernels on
my new laptop from the very beginnig I have the laptopt and I did not notice
such behaviour before.

I have 1 GB RAM and I was coping a 2GB file from the network to the laptop.
After the operation, 600MB of the swap area has been consumed. At the
beginning of the copy, the swap area was empty.

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17 13:17 swapping in 2.6.24-rc5-git3 Lukas Hejtmanek
2007-12-17 17:15 ` Jan Kara
2007-12-17 20:43   ` Lukas Hejtmanek [this message]
2007-12-18 10:58   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2007-12-18  1:38 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-12-18  1:44   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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