Re: Swapping in 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.11 on a desktop system

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:53, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [1] With swappiness = 60 I either get swap hell (2.6.10) or the oom killer
> kicks in (2.6.11.11)
>
> [2] I upgraded to 2.6.11.11 from 2.6.8.1 yesterday and tried to compile
> something. After some time I come back and the compile has aborted because
> the oom killer killed the compiler process. There is no additional use of
> swap space (although some applications that were also running could have
> been swapped out). There was a similar bugreport with this behaviour some
> time ago for 2.6.11.8 but that one included a swappiness value of 0, i got
> 60.

> I have 512MB of RAM and another 512MB of swap.

Try the mapped watermark patch from -ck on 2.6.11*
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck10/patches/mapped_watermark3.diff

Cheers,
Con

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