maybe you can tell me something about this ...
There have been quite some patches on MM/swap/OOM of Linux by you, Andrea and
Stephen during the last time. Is there a final version? Are there recent
(2.1.125+) patches for these problems? Did anything get into the kernel?
What I have in mind, when writing these lines, is:
(1) cow-swapin: I often observed that after compiling a large C++ program
(which needs some swap), the shell keeps swapping something in on every
<Enter> keypress. This is cured by swapoff -a; swapon -a.
If I correctly understood, this is what cow-swapin was supposed to cure.
(2) somebody claimed having found swap bugs
(3) better oom behaviour
I consider (1) to be a serious bug. I don't know much about (2). (3) is
obviously hard to solve cleanly.
Doing some tests with 2.1.125ac3 indicate that (1) was solved. Can you
confirm that?
Regards,
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