Re: kswapd etc hogging machine

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 11:51:01 EST


On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> 2.4.1x VM code is performing better under light loads but its
> absolutely and completely hopeless under a real paging load. 2.4.17-aa
> is somewhat better interestingly.

A quick 'make -j bzImage' test I did yesterday got the system
to use near 70% of its CPU time in user mode and 30% in system
mode. This was with 2.4.17-rmap-10b, btw.

Though I have to admit the rmap patches should be considered
experimental, the last one does seem to survive some loads
where the standard kernel falls over ;)

regards,

Rik

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