Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

Marc Singer
2004-04-30T22:31:14Z

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:08:03PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> You would probably be better off trying a simpler change
> first actually:
>
> in mm/vmscan.c, shrink_list(), change:
>
> if (res == WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
> ClearPageReclaim(page);
> goto activate_locked;
> }
>
> to
>
> if (res == WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
> ClearPageReclaim(page);
> goto keep_locked;
> }
>
> I think it is not the correct solution, but should narrow
> down your problem. Let us know how it goes.

OK, thanks. It might be a few days before I can get to this.