From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264211AbUE2IrC (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 04:47:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264124AbUE2Iqc (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 04:46:32 -0400 Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.225]:6546 "HELO smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264196AbUE2IqT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 04:46:19 -0400 Message-ID: <40B84DD3.7090505@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:46:11 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Vlasenko , Matthias Schniedermeyer CC: Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MM patches (was Re: why swap at all?) References: <200405291031.02564.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <40B84C85.8010207@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <40B84C85.8010207@yahoo.com.au> 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 Nick Piggin wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >> (pages with program/library code, data of e.g. your Mozilla, etc), >> please submit a report to lkml. VM gurus said more than once >> that they _want_ to fix things, but need to know how to reproduce. > > > Yep. > > Thanks to everyone's input I was able to test and adapt my mm work. > It is hopefully at a stage where it can have wider testing now. It > is stable on my SMP system under very heavy swapping, but the usual > caution applies. > > Test is 4 x cat 8GB > /dev/null (aggregate 100-200MB/s!) while in X, > with xterms and mozilla open browsing and grepping kernel tree, etc. > This isn't the "very heavy swapping" load, BTW :) The very heavy swapping load is make -j15 in 64MB of memory.