From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ricardo Galli <gallir@m3d.uib.es>,
Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:50:20 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010916185020.ast@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109161330000.9536-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
On 16-Sep-2001 Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 16 Sep 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to tell the VM to prune its cache? Or a way to limit
>> the amount of cache it uses?
>
> Not yet, I'll make a quick hack for this when I get back next
> week. It's pretty obvious now that the 2.4 kernel cannot get
> enough information to select the right pages to evict from
> memory.
>
In my experience you should try to run aide
(ftp://ftp.cs.tut.fi/pub/src/gnu/aide-0.7.tar.gz) for tests. This is a case of
one single process doing a file system consistency check and stopping all other
processes cold due to swapout due to heavy cacheing. While aide runs the system
just becomes unusable.
Andreas Steinmetz
D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-16 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-16 15:19 broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 Ricardo Galli
2001-09-16 15:23 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-09-16 16:33 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 16:50 ` Andreas Steinmetz [this message]
2001-09-16 17:12 ` Ricardo Galli
2001-09-16 17:06 ` Ricardo Galli
2001-09-16 17:18 ` Jeremy Zawodny
2001-09-16 18:16 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-16 18:45 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21 3:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2001-09-21 10:21 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21 14:08 ` Bill Davidsen
2001-09-21 14:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-23 13:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-23 13:27 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 10:43 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21 12:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 12:55 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21 13:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-22 11:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-22 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 9:36 ` Linux VM design VDA
2001-09-24 11:06 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-24 12:15 ` Kirill Ratkin
2001-09-24 13:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 14:05 ` VDA
2001-09-24 14:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 14:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 18:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-24 18:46 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-24 19:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-24 19:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 17:27 ` Rob Landley
2001-09-24 21:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 9:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-25 16:03 ` bill davidsen
2001-09-24 19:11 ` Dan Mann
2001-09-25 10:55 ` VDA
2001-09-16 19:43 ` broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 19:57 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 20:17 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 20:29 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-16 21:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 22:47 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-16 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 22:59 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-16 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 23:29 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 15:35 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 16:34 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 17:20 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 0:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17 1:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 2:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17 5:11 ` Jan Harkes
2001-09-17 12:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17 12:41 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 14:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17 16:14 ` Jan Harkes
2001-09-17 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 12:26 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18 12:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18 12:09 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 3:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2001-09-17 8:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-17 12:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 15:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-22 19:59 Peter Magnusson
2001-09-22 20:46 ` Jan Harkes
2001-09-22 21:46 ` Peter Magnusson
2001-09-22 19:59 Peter Magnusson
2001-09-22 20:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-19 22:15 Rob Fuller
2001-09-19 22:21 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-19 22:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-20 3:16 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-09-20 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-19 22:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-19 22:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-19 22:51 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2001-09-17 15:40 Rob Fuller
2001-09-17 16:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-19 9:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-19 19:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-19 21:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-19 22:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-19 22:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-19 23:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-20 11:28 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-20 12:06 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 8:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-21 12:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 15:27 ` Jan Harkes
2001-09-22 7:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-25 11:04 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-09-20 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 13:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-24 22:50 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-26 18:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-26 23:44 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-27 13:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-01 11:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-19 23:00 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 8:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-21 12:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-22 2:14 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-22 3:09 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 14:29 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-09-21 14:35 ` Horst von Brand
2001-09-19 21:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-19 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-20 13:02 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 19:07 vm rewrite ready [Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9] Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 15:19 ` broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 Phillip Susi
2001-09-16 19:33 ` Jeremy Zawodny
2001-09-16 19:52 ` Rik van Riel
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[not found] ` <fa.gu977tv.1b7u0g9@ifi.uio.no>
2001-09-16 18:06 ` Dan Maas
2001-09-15 22:43 Peter Magnusson
2001-09-15 23:50 ` Jan Harkes
2001-09-16 5:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 8:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-17 10:25 ` Tonu Samuel
2001-09-16 16:47 ` Jeremy Zawodny
2001-09-16 18:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-16 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 14:04 ` Olaf Zaplinski
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