Re: [PATCH] 2.4.9-ac15 painfully sluggish

From: Roberto Orenstein (roberto@brsat.com.br)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 08:54:10 EST


Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Pau Aliagas wrote:
>
>
>> The problem seems to be related in pages not moved to swap but
>> being discarded somehow and reread later on.... just a guess.
>
>
> I've made a small patch to 2.4.9-ac15 which should make
> page_launder() smoother, make some (very minor) tweaks
> to page aging and updates various comments in vmscan.c
>
> It's below this email and at:
>
> http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.9-ac15-age+launder
>
> Since I failed to break 2.4.9-ac15 with this patch following
> the instructions given to me by others, it would be nice to
> know if the thing can still break on your machines.
>
> Please test,
>

Test done, and it seems just fine.
The problem vanish away. Didn't trigger anymore, on my machine.

thanx

Roberto

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