From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:31:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:31:33 -0400 Received: from family.zawodny.com ([63.174.200.26]:16132 "EHLO family.zawodny.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:31:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:33:09 -0700 From: Jeremy Zawodny To: Phillip Susi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 Message-ID: <20010916123309.A15108@peach.zawodny.com> In-Reply-To: <200109161919.f8GJJwA25036@smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200109161919.f8GJJwA25036@smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-message-flag: Mailbox corrupt. Please upgrade your mail software. X-Uptime: 12:32:04 up 49 days, 10:30, 10 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:19:29PM +0000, Phillip Susi wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that these > problems are due to the cache putting pressure on VM, so process > pages get swapped out. That's what it felt like in the cases that I ran into it. It was trying to treat all memory equally, when it probably shouldn't have. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/