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

[Marc Singer]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:08:03PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> You would probably be better off trying a simpler change
> first actually:
> 
> in mm/vmscan.c, shrink_list(), change:
> 
> if (res == WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
> 	ClearPageReclaim(page);
> 	goto activate_locked;
> }
> 
> to
> 
> if (res == WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
> 	ClearPageReclaim(page);
> 	goto keep_locked;
> }
> 
> I think it is not the correct solution, but should narrow
> down your problem. Let us know how it goes.

OK, thanks.  It might be a few days before I can get to this.
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