> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > General thread comment:
> > To those who are griping, and obviously rightfully so, Rik has twice
> > stated on this list that he could use some help with VM auto-balancing.
> > The responses (visible on this list at least) was rather underwhelming.
> > I noted no public exchange of ideas.. nada in fact.
>
> While my post didn't give an exact formula, I was quite clear on the fact that
> the system is allowing the caches to overrun memory and cause oom problems.
Yes. A testcase would be good. It's not happening to everybody nor is
it happening under all loads. (if it were, it'd be long dead)
> I'm more than happy to test patches, and I would even be willing to suggest
> some algorithms that might help, but I don't know where to stick them in the
> code. Most of the people who have been griping are in a similar position.
First step toward killing the critter is to lure him onto open ground.
Once there.. well, I've seen some pretty fancy shooting on this list.
-Mike
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