Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell

[Nick Piggin]

Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:20:47PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
>
> > Russell King is working on a lot of things for the MMU code in ARM.
> > I'm waiting to see where he ends up.  I believe he's planning on
> > removing the lazy PTE release logic.
>
>
> Essentially it came to a grinding halt due to the shere size of the
> task of sorting out the crappy includes, which is far to large for a
> stable kernel.
>
> I may go back to the original problem and sort it a different way,
> but for the time being, I'm occupied in other areas.

Anyway, Marc said he tried flushing the tlb and that didn't
solve his problem.

The problem might be the one identified in the thread:
2.6.6-rc{1,2} bad VM/NFS interaction in case of dirty page writeback
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