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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:34:59 -0400 From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux machines dieing in swap storms On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100 Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net> wrote: > Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll happily > hack my kernels with a workaround if need be. I can't see any easy hacks or workarounds to fix the issue in the current MM, except maybe activate the OOM killer if the amount of page cache and buffer cache is really low and swap is full... In the longer run, I'm working on: http://linux-mm.org/PageReplacementDesign -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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