Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

[Nick Piggin]

Terje Fåberg wrote:
> Terje Fåberg <terje_fb@xxxxxxxx> skrev: 
>
>
> > I'll continue to do the same things I did yesterday
> > before kswapd started to spin. 
>
>
> Looks very good so far. I am unable to reproduce the
> bad kswapd behaviour with your patch, Nick.
>
> To double-check I booted into the old kernel an hour
> ago and I _could_ reproduce the bad behaviour within a
> few minutes. 
>
> Looks like your patch fixes it for my workload.

OK that's good to know. At this stage it is only working
around the intermediate symptoms, and we might want a
different fix for 2.6.11...

So hopefully you'll be able to test a patch or two if
you get time.

Thanks,
Nick

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