Re: linux-2.4.13 high SWAP

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
25 Oct 2001 15:23:03 +0200


Hi Marcelo,

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Remember: Everything copied to tmpfs will be kept in memory, so if
> you simply copy way too much data to tmpfs thats your problem :)

Nope, it will swap it out.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, the problem appears to be that tmpfs stuff just stays on the
> inactive list, and because it cannot be written out it eventually
> totally clogs the system.
>
> Suggested fix appended (from Andrea),

> --- v2.4.13/linux/fs/ramfs/inode.c Tue Oct 9 17:06:53 2001
> +++ linux/fs/ramfs/inode.c Wed Oct 24 08:59:21 2001

tmpfs != ramfs. So either the patch is not complete or fixes another
problem...

Greetings
Christoph

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