Re: Unusual swapping behaviour

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Fri, 29 May 1998 02:48:04 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 28 May 1998, Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote:

>Now, the even stranger thing is that I can start up another copy of the exact
>same process, and this new copy will *not* thrash at all. These two copies of
>the process can actually exist at the same time, and one will thrash while the
>other won't, all depending on whether it 'survived' the compile job.

The new copy of the process has a life time very shorter than the old one
so I think that kswapd is acting in a different way.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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