Subject: Re: failing to keep a process from swapping
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Arto Selonen <arto@selonen.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/30/2004 19:18:14
Hi!

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:54:17AM +0300, Arto Selonen wrote:
> > Thanks a lot! Problem solved, and I can move on to the next part of my
> > squid problem. First part was the early paging out, the next one is
> > "400 MB squid forking and partially freezing the whole system".
>
> this may be due to PR 26908.  there's a patch attached to the PR that
> you can try.

Thanks for the pointer. I will probably upgrade the system in a week,
or so, anyway, so testing the patch should not be a problem. With
squid it'll take a while to get the memory usage really going, but
it has not failed us yet (in causing problems with extensive memory use,
when configured with high 'cache_mem').


Artsi
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