From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:52:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:52:38 -0400 Received: from [200.250.64.5] ([200.250.64.5]:53514 "EHLO nat.brsat.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:52:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB1DE02.8010704@brsat.com.br> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:54:10 -0300 From: Roberto Orenstein Reply-To: roberto@brsat.com.br User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-ac15 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: pt-br, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.9-ac15 painfully sluggish 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 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Pau Aliagas wrote: > > >> The problem seems to be related in pages not moved to swap but >> being discarded somehow and reread later on.... just a guess. > > > I've made a small patch to 2.4.9-ac15 which should make > page_launder() smoother, make some (very minor) tweaks > to page aging and updates various comments in vmscan.c > > It's below this email and at: > > http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.9-ac15-age+launder > > Since I failed to break 2.4.9-ac15 with this patch following > the instructions given to me by others, it would be nice to > know if the thing can still break on your machines. > > Please test, > Test done, and it seems just fine. The problem vanish away. Didn't trigger anymore, on my machine. thanx Roberto