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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@ringstrom.mine.nu>
Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.11pre4 swapping out all over the place
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 09:09:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110060903510.1260-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110061048140.29350-100000@boris.prodako.se>


On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
>
> I can confirm that in 2.4.11-pre4, the used-once pages are causing
> page-out activity, as opposed to 2.4.11-pre2 which did not.

Yeah, try_to_free_pages() gives up much too early: Marcelo removed the
loop from it. That also shows the problems with the out_of_memory() logic
much more easily.

Can you try just undoing the changes to try_to_free_pages() itself?

		Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-06 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-06  8:06 Simon Kirby
2001-10-06  8:59 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-06 16:09   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-10-06 17:49     ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-06 21:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-07  4:59         ` Simon Kirby
2001-10-07  7:43         ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-07 17:39           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-07 17:56             ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-07  4:57       ` David S. Miller
2001-10-06 22:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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