Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

From: German Gomez Garcia (german@piraos.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 14:32:24 EST


On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:35:54PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:41:02PM +0200, German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> > > > so, if there is another way to get that info (maybe some file in /proc?)
> > >
> > > did you compiled with highmem?
> >
> > No,
>
> ok then with 512mbyte on an x86 my patch couldn't help. I thought it was
> it because the sympthom was the same (constant kswapd activity and
> constant swap grow) but it obviously is something else. Then try
> 2.4.6pre3aa1 (it is certainly stable).

        You were right, with 2.4.6pre3aa1 it works in the expected way (at
least the way it was expected before :-). I'm now at home so if you need
more info on it, I'll do my best.

        Regards,

        - german

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