Re: Exaggerated swap usage

[Javier Marcet]

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* Rik van Riel <[e-mail]> [021130 19:25]:

>> I've experienced a similar problem with "linux-2.4.20-rc2-ac3",
>> "linux-2.4.20-rc4-ac1" and "linux-2.4.20-ac1". At first I also
>> thought it's a swap problem, but this seems to be a wrong con-
>> clusion, too.

>Known problem, rmap14 doesn't do pageout IO soon enough. This
>is good if the inactive pages are clean (cache) but stalls the
>system if the data needs to be written to disk.

>This should be fixed in rmap15.

Is rmap15 included in 2.4.20-rc4-ac1?
That's the last ac I used and was paging out too much, so that the
system became slow unnecessarily.

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Javier Marcet <[e-mail]>

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