From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 14:18:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 14:18:19 -0400 Received: from mail1.netcabo.pt ([212.113.161.135]:21775 "EHLO netcabo.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 14:18:02 -0400 Message-ID: <3B168B59.70906@europe.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:20:09 +0100 From: Vasco Figueira User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010530 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] reclaim dirty dead swapcache pages In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > I tested it and yes, it works. (...) > Please test. I've tested it against vanilla 2.4.5 and it resolves the freeze problem, though: I've opened x, gnome, mozilla, mozilla -mail, 3 gnome-terminals, pan, xmms, some files and javac. Swap was totally filled up and it didn't froze (good!). However suddently it came very busy (i thougth it was going to freeze again), the music stopped, and came back to normal again. It had killed xmms, I noticed after. Is it intentional to kill processes? Well, it does reolve the problem, but kills some processes, probably the most eager ones. I will keep using this patch and report again if something relevant is found. So far, so good, this is better tha having to swapoff & swapon all the time. Nice work Marcelo. -- Regards, Vasco Figueira http://students.fct.unl.pt/users/vaf12086/