[Sheflug] RE: 2.4 kernel VM issues.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
>> 5) Virtual memory - using disk to store unused RAM.  Currently 2.2
>>    does a pretty bad job of this for IDE.  2.4 does somewhat better or
>>    even worse depending on the VM-of-the-week.  I haven't checked the
>>    kernel lists in about a week, this may be getting better.
>
>test9 is still giving me kswapd with 80-90% CPU at times. It's starting to
>really get on my wick.
>Really the "new" seems to have much the same issues as the "old" one.

 Wierd. I've run 2.4.0-test7 and -test8, a whole bunch of -pre's and I'm now 
on
-test9-pre9 (haven't rebooted into -test9 yet).

 Currently I'm running 1Gb swap and 256Mb physical memory, and everything has
been running sweetly.
 kswapd is maybe using 1% if not less. (Can't check - using Windoze machine at
work at the moment).

 Baz.

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