From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 22:42:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 22:42:26 -0400 Received: from [209.10.41.242] ([209.10.41.242]:56477 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 22:42:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:32:09 +0900 Message-Id: <200105290232.f4T2W9m00876@bellini.kjist.ac.kr> From: "G. Hugh Song" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM... Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M > cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of > RAM deeply into swap: > > Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K > buff > Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K > cached > > Vanilla 2.4.5 VM. > This bug known as the swap-reclaim bug has been there for a while since around 2.4.4. Rick van Riel said that it is in the TO-DO list. Because of this, I went back to 2.2.20pre2aa1 on UP2000 SMP. IMHO, the current 2.4.* kernels should still be 2.3.*. When this bug is removed, I will come back to 2.4.*. Regards, Hugh