Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

[Nick Piggin]

Marc Singer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:21:24AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > Anyway, I have a small set of VM patches which attempt to improve
> > this sort of behaviour if anyone is brave enough to try them.
> > Against -mm kernels only I'm afraid (the objrmap work causes some
> > porting difficulty).
>
>
> Is this the same patch you wanted me to try?  
>
>   Remember, the embedded system where NFS IO was pushing my
>   application out of memory.  Setting swappiness to zero was a
>   temporary fix.

Yes this is the same patch I wanted you to try. Yes I
remember your problem!

Didn't anyone come up with a patch for you to test the
stale PTE theory? If so, what where the results?

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