This just showed up in my logs:
Mar 29 17:25:21 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Mar 29 17:25:40 Atlantis last message repeated 727 times
Mar 29 17:27:53 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Mar 29 17:28:54 Atlantis last message repeated 202 times
Mar 29 17:28:54 Atlantis last message repeated 194 times
Mar 29 17:30:06 Atlantis last message repeated 390 times
Mar 29 17:34:35 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Mar 29 17:35:37 Atlantis last message repeated 2925 times
Mar 29 17:36:40 Atlantis last message repeated 5265 times
Mar 29 17:36:42 Atlantis last message repeated 389 times
Mar 29 17:47:46 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Mar 29 17:48:48 Atlantis last message repeated 975 times
Mar 29 17:49:33 Atlantis last message repeated 4874 times
Mar 29 17:55:32 Atlantis kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Mar 29 17:56:31 Atlantis last message repeated 5459 times
Mar 29 17:57:22 Atlantis last message repeated 8580 times
System had been running for 2 hours. X was up with 4 desks, XFMail (cleaning
out my kernel-mailinglist archive which was 26Mb on disk), Wine 980315
running Agent 1.5, 3 rxvt's, top, jed, xsplay (MP3 player), dosemu 0.97.5.
I have 48Mb of RAM and 50Mb of swap, there was roughly 25Mb in swap
and about 30Mb in RAM when it happened.
The system generally felt snappy though kswapd choked the mp3-player a few
times, this happened when XFMail moved the 26Mb of mail to the Trash folder,
and also when it did a rescan of my trash folder which now contained 26 Mb of
mail (5200+ entries, MH mailfolder, causes XFMail to grow to 16Mb in RAM).
When these messages began to popup, the system started swapping/hitting the disk
like mad. It was almost impossible to switch desks in X. After closing
Wine/Agent and the mp3-player it calmed down a little. It was back to normal
after I killed X (C-A-Backspace). No oops was associated with this, and it
didn't seem to do any harm. I don't know if I can reproduce it (haven't had time
to try).
System info:
P133, QDI MB with i430FX chipset
48 Mb RAM
IDE only (3 drives)
SB16
vanilla 2.1.91 compiled with pgcc-1.0.1 (-mpentium -O3 -fomit-framepointer )
binutils-2.8.1.0.15
- tgc
--- Tom G. Christensen, Denmark Email: tom.christensen@get2net.dk Linux Atlantis 2.0.33 i586
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