Re: Exaggerated swap usage

From: Javier Marcet (jmarcet@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 02:57:56 EST

* Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> [021130 19:25]:

>> I've experienced a similar problem with "linux-2.4.20-rc2-ac3",
>> "linux-2.4.20-rc4-ac1" and "linux-2.4.20-ac1". At first I also
>> thought it's a swap problem, but this seems to be a wrong con-
>> clusion, too.

>Known problem, rmap14 doesn't do pageout IO soon enough. This
>is good if the inactive pages are clean (cache) but stalls the
>system if the data needs to be written to disk.

>This should be fixed in rmap15.

Is rmap15 included in 2.4.20-rc4-ac1?
That's the last ac I used and was paging out too much, so that the
system became slow unnecessarily. 

-- 
Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>
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