Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

[Martin Knoblauch]

Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 18:41:29 +0100
> Martin Knoblauch <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >  so I took the M.H.vL vmscan.c patch for 2.4.17 and it is a definite
> > winner for me. Sounds like 2.4.18 material.
> 
> What issues have been solved or remarkably become better for you with Martins
> patch?
> 
> Regards,
> Stephan

 massive reduction of swapped out applications in the light of a 220+
MiB Cache. This on a 320 MiB System with about 2x swap. As a result,
interactive behaviour (this is a notebook) is much better. Before the
patch I had about 50-60 MB in swap for my workload (vmware + netscape +
plus kernel compile + updatedb). Now it is below 5 MB, although this is
still to much (yes, I know, I could turn off swap completely :-)

 I also took the OOM-Killer patch, although it never was a real concern
for me.

Martin
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