Dear Kernel Developers,
this question could probably be answered bt Andrea Arcangeli ?
I added a prink to balance_classzone in 2.4.15-pre9.
The message is not accurate because I moved it there,
but anyway ...
--- linux-2.4.15-9/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Nov 22 19:53:46 2001
+++ work-2.4.15-9/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Nov 22 22:02:15 2001
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@
local_pages = ¤t->local_pages;
if (likely(__freed)) {
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "zone_balance: %d pages freed\n", current->nr_local_pages);
+
/* pick from the last inserted so we're lifo */
entry = local_pages->next;
do {
I bootet with mem=64M and started KDE/Konqueror and did a
bonnie++ run with 256M filesize. (I did not let it finish though).
The count of current->nr_local_pages from syslog shows always
'1'. Maybe I don't understand the code, but balance_classzone is
very often called (>20 times during one second according to syslog).
I could append syslog output, but it's pretty boring.
My question is, whats the logic behind those nr_local_pages
and the lifo while loop, when it's always called for one page ?
I had to kill bonnie++ and KDE because the box was absolutely
trashing and did not respond to anything.
thanks for clarifying.
Patrick
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