>>>>> "lee" == I Lee Hetherington <ilh@sls.lcs.mit.edu> writes:
Hi
lee> Check out this vmstat 1 output. I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/junk
lee> bs=1024k count=500, and it swaps stuff out despite having more than
lee> enough free memory. In other cases, it has swapped out 32+MB in a
lee> similar situation.
Could you test one of test4-preX please? it has a change in __alloc_pages()
that should help in this problem.
I am interested in sucess/failed reports.
Later, Juan.
PD. If you don't want to change the kernel, you can apply the patch
from my web page:
http://carpanta.dc.fi.udc.es/~quintela/kernel/2.4.0-test3/alloc_pages_02.patch
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