VM (runaway kswapd) improvement 32Mb/120Mb 2.4.7-ac10 -> 2.4.8-ac4

VM (runaway kswapd) improvement 32Mb/120Mb 2.4.7-ac10 -> 2.4.8-ac4

[Eric Buddington]

FWIW, my Omnibook 4100 (PII) with 32Mb RAM and 120Mb swap had some
trouble with frequent bursts of 98% system time and high kswapd CPU
usage under 2.4.7-ac10 while compiling the kernel and running festival
(memory-intensive speech synthesizer).

Currently, with 2.4.8-ac4, everything is just swell. Thanks to whoever
did the tweaking.

-Eric

Re: VM (runaway kswapd) improvement 32Mb/120Mb 2.4.7-ac10 -> 2.4.8-ac4

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Eric Buddington wrote:

> FWIW, my Omnibook 4100 (PII) with 32Mb RAM and 120Mb swap had some
> trouble with frequent bursts of 98% system time and high kswapd CPU
> usage under 2.4.7-ac10 while compiling the kernel and running festival
> (memory-intensive speech synthesizer).
>
> Currently, with 2.4.8-ac4, everything is just swell. Thanks to whoever
> did the tweaking.

That's interesting because Alan's changelog doesn't
list VM changes between 2.4.7-ac10 and 2.4.8-ac4,
except for an shmfs fix and an oom killer fix ;)

regards,

Rik
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