On 05-Dec-2001 at 18:41:55 Joe Cooper wrote:
> That depends. Linux kernel 2.4.13 may or may not have a badly broken VM
> layer--which variant are you using? Linus or AC? If Linus, it probably
> still had some bugs that might hit Squid, while AC definitely has the
> old VM code that blows up with big processes. I ran into this at the
> cacheoff quite badly.
>
Not sure if this is the same as the kswapd problem running at up to 100% cpu
time - a race condition I gather. We upgraded our 2GB linux cache from
2.4.13 (which had the problem) to 2.4.16 (from http://www.kernel.org/) and
have had no problems with memory since.
Regards,
John.
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