Re: Swapping in 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.11 on a desktop system

From: Con Kolivas (kernel_at_kolivas.org)
Date: 06/14/05

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:42:00 +1000

    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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