From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andre Margis <andre@sam.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.13 high SWAP
Date: 25 Oct 2001 15:23:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lmhz26rs.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110241509250.885-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> <9r73pv$8h1$1@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110241509250.885-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
Hi Marcelo,
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Remember: Everything copied to tmpfs will be kept in memory, so if
> you simply copy way too much data to tmpfs thats your problem :)
Nope, it will swap it out.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, the problem appears to be that tmpfs stuff just stays on the
> inactive list, and because it cannot be written out it eventually
> totally clogs the system.
>
> Suggested fix appended (from Andrea),
> --- v2.4.13/linux/fs/ramfs/inode.c Tue Oct 9 17:06:53 2001
> +++ linux/fs/ramfs/inode.c Wed Oct 24 08:59:21 2001
tmpfs != ramfs. So either the patch is not complete or fixes another
problem...
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-25 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-24 5:52 linux-2.4.13 Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 7:39 ` linux-2.4.13 christophe barbe
2001-10-24 8:08 ` linux-2.4.13 Florian Weimer
2001-10-24 8:56 ` linux-2.4.13 Tim Nicholas
2001-10-25 10:29 ` linux-2.4.13 André Dahlqvist
2001-10-24 9:40 ` linux-2.4.13 bert hubert
2001-10-24 16:51 ` linux-2.4.13 Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 17:05 ` linux-2.4.13 high SWAP Andre Margis
2001-10-24 17:42 ` Andre Margis
2001-10-24 16:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-24 18:20 ` Andre Margis
2001-10-24 17:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-24 18:37 ` Andre Margis
2001-10-24 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 21:03 ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-24 21:48 ` toon
2001-10-24 22:08 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-25 13:23 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-10-26 2:17 ` linux-2.4.13 Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-10-26 5:44 ` linux-2.4.13 Stuart Young
2001-10-24 11:16 ` linux-2.4.13 Andy Pevy
2001-10-24 10:56 ` linux-2.4.13 Francois Romieu
2001-10-24 14:48 ` linux-2.4.13 Jan Rekorajski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-30 4:49 linux-2.4.13 high SWAP Robert Scussel
2001-10-30 10:28 ` Pablo Ninja
2001-10-30 13:29 ` Ulrich Wiederhold
2001-10-30 15:48 ` Robert Scussel
2001-10-30 15:10 ` Andre Margis
2001-10-30 18:56 ` Theo Schlossnagle
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