Re: 2.1.92 swap roach motel :)

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:26:38 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Garst R. Reese wrote:

> Started procinfo-.13 on one vt.
> then word2x -f latex apmv11.doc on another.
> 20Mb ram 40Mb swap.
> swap climbed to 32Mb, free to ~13Mb, used dropped to ~4Mb
> swap checks in but doesn't check out. Ctrl C killed the prog and
> everything gradually recovered gracefully.
> Stock 2.1.92 + Rik's small vmscan.c patch for lo mem machines +

I'm currently using 2.1.92 without any 'personal refinements'
and it's running without problems.
How's 2.1.92 _without_ my patch? (maybe swap_tick() is
starting kswapd too often with my patch enabled???)

Rik.
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