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

Marc Singer
2004-04-29T00:59:51Z

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:21:24AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Anyway, I have a small set of VM patches which attempt to improve
> this sort of behaviour if anyone is brave enough to try them.
> Against -mm kernels only I'm afraid (the objrmap work causes some
> porting difficulty).

Is this the same patch you wanted me to try?

Remember, the embedded system where NFS IO was pushing my
application out of memory. Setting swappiness to zero was a
temporary fix.