Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines

[Chris Vine]

On Monday 08 December 2003 2:23 pm, Con Kolivas wrote:
> [snip original discussion thrashing swap on 2.6test with 32mb ram]
>
> Chris
>
> By an unusual coincidence I was looking into the patches that were supposed
> to speed up application startup and noticed this one was merged. A brief
> discussion with wli suggests this could cause thrashing problems on low
> memory boxes so can you try this patch? Applies to test11.

Con,

I have applied the patch, and performance is nearly indistinguishable from 
that with the kernel without it.

Chris.

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