Re: more kswapd swap death ideas

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm+eric@npwt.net)
22 Jun 1998 21:53:54 -0500


>>>>> "RR" == Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:

RR> Your fix, combined with my process killing code should make
RR> for systems that are more stable...

There is one more case to consider. Swap cached pages.

The story: A page was swapped out, it was later read in, but hasn't
been changed so it has a swap page associated with it. These pages
can still be removed from memory, and only kswapd can do that.

Ericp

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