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Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

To: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures
From: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:11:30 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:18:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> All I can say is "experiment with it".
> 
> It might be useful to renice kswapd so that userspace processes do not
> increase its latency.

Hmm, increasing the min free kb to 64MB and renicing kswapd to -8 seems to 
solve the issue. However, for me it seems as not so good solution mainly because
2.6.6-bk4 kernel is just ok without any tweeks.

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek


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