* Rik van Riel [021202 13:52]: >>There was no inconsistency but in three spots. >Your changes look good. Maybe the lookup_swapcache() thing would >be more beautiful, but it's equivalent to the code you've got in >place. Your patch should just work. There are a couple issues, e.g. in mm/filemap.c, in the patchset I sent. I'll be looking into it today. I hope to send something within a few hours. But since tomorrow morning I'm moving, and I'm now packaging et all, I might have no time to finish it today. In that case until Wednesday I don't think I'll be able to continue on it... >>Feel free to try it. I'm running it right now and so far no problems. >>The vm usage has definitely improved, but there are still slight stalls >>when there's a high disk io. Say, in periods of ~2-3s the system stopped >>responding for a few cents of a sec, as if it had tachycardia. >That's probably the disk IO scheduler. Yeah, definitely. I'm following the other thread on 2.4.20-rmap15a and the dl hack. Let's see if we -you really, I'm not yet contributing anything- can make 2.4.20 work smoothly. -- Javier Marcet