Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM...

G. Hugh Song (ghsong@kjist.ac.kr)
Tue, 29 May 2001 11:32:09 +0900


Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M
> cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of
> RAM deeply into swap:
>
> Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
> buff
> Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K
> cached
>
> Vanilla 2.4.5 VM.
>

This bug known as the swap-reclaim bug has been there for a while since
around 2.4.4. Rick van Riel said that it is in the TO-DO list.
Because of this, I went back to 2.2.20pre2aa1 on UP2000 SMP.

IMHO, the current 2.4.* kernels should still be 2.3.*. When this bug
is removed, I will come back to 2.4.*.

Regards,

Hugh

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