Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:08:55 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Chuck Lever wrote:

>how did you make this swap scenario happen? i've seen nothing but good

Simply cause a proggy to be swapped out. Then kill the proggy before
paging it back in memory. Then if you'll press SYSRQ+M you'll see tons of
pages allocated as swap cache pages. Such buffers are likely to be chained
in a few buckets without adding +offset in the hash function.

Andrea Arcangeli

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