Re: VM balancing stuff in 2.4.8-9 broken

[Daniel Phillips]

On August 28, 2001 04:06 am, Peter Magnusson wrote:
> I just wanted to say that the VM balancing stuff in 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 doesnt
> work very well. 2.4.8 and .9 will use 200 Mbyte of my swap after just 6
> hours! I got 512 Mbyte RAM, 256 Mbyte swap.
> 
> I have now switched back to 2.4.7. Uptime 6 days and 11 Mbyte swap used.
> I would prefer if Linux used as little swap as possible. It only gets
> slower.
> 
> (if you want to reply to me send mail to [e-mail]
> without jahatjosan.)

Known problem, a patch exists and was applied in 2.4.10-pre1.  Here it is 
again if you want to verify this:

--- ../2.4.9.clean/mm/memory.c	Mon Aug 13 19:16:41 2001
+++ ./mm/memory.c	Sun Aug 19 21:35:26 2001
@@ -1119,6 +1119,7 @@
 			 */
 			return pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte) ? -1 : 1;
 		}
+		SetPageReferenced(page);
 	}
 
 	/*