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In 2.4.10 the Andrea's new VM system was integrated and Rik's was removed. This caused quite a few problems, similar to those listed, and wasn't taken care of until about 2.4.15 or so.
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On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 19:50, Timothy C. Klein wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I only read about these second hand, but I assumes they meant something</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>like that. The real problem seems to have been a nasty cylce wherein</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>everthing starts to get swapped out to disk, and then need swapped back</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>in, but then gets swapped back out...</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I never experienced this, though, so that is all second hand from me.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Tim</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>* Adam_Bultman@gmx.net (Adam_Bultman@gmx.net) wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > There were some trouble in VM performance in the early 2.4 kernels which</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > could lead to swap storms, but these seem to have been fixed in the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > latest 2.4 kernels.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> By swap storms, do you mean when you'd use very little ram, but tons of</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> swap? I swear, the last kernel I had on my slackware box (2.4.9 or 12, I think)</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> would push EVERYTHING into swap. I'd use very little memory, but swap would</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> be full.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> adam</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
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