From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 28 Aug 2001 21:14:15 +0200
At least something seems to be broken in it. I did run some 900MB processes
on a 512MB machine with 2.4.9 and kswapd took between 70 and 90% of the CPU
time.
That's all swapmap lookup stupidity, you'll see __get_swap_page()
near the top of your profiles. The algorithm is just sucky.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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