From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263399AbTDGMd4 (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:33:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263402AbTDGMd4 (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:33:56 -0400 Received: from werbeagentur-aufwind.com ([217.160.128.76]:13769 "EHLO mail.werbeagentur-aufwind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263399AbTDGMdx (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:33:53 -0400 Subject: Re: An idea for prefetching swapped memory... From: Christophe Saout To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030407121918.GA22630@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <200304071026.47557.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> <200304072021.17080.kernel@kolivas.org> <1049715389.1096.7.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net> <20030407121918.GA22630@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Organization: Message-Id: <1049719521.2596.2.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.3.1.99 (Preview Release) Date: 07 Apr 2003 14:45:21 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Mon, 2003-04-07 um 14.19 schrieb Jörn Engel: > On Mon, 7 April 2003 13:48:17 +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > > Christophe Saout writes: > > > > > Are you sure this is working? When I'm watching a video ofer NFS on > > > my machine which is idle (just X and mplayer, gnome in background, > > > 256 MB of memory, 512 swap), after 30 minutes or so, the playback > > > starts to jump. The cpu usage is below 10%, and it even does this > > > when both X and mplayer are renice to -19 (!). So the VM swapped > > > everything out and after 30 minutes it starts to swap out X oder > > > mplayer itself, which is immediately swapped back in but the video > > > jumps... :-( > > > > How much of your memory is in use? Are you sure there isn't a memory > > leak somewhere in mplayer? > > Anyway, I am quite sure that this is not a kernel problem, so please > take lkml out of any replies. :) I'm sorry, I think Måns is right, when the video started to jump, mplayer took about 60 percent of the memory... in this case I can't blame the VM. I'm not seeing any reports of memory leaks on its user list, but my mileage may vary. ;-) -- Christophe Saout