Re: swap/memory patches

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981023121950.1238B-100000@dragon.bogus>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> writes:

> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> (1) cow-swapin: I often observed that after compiling a large C++ program
>>> (which needs some swap), the shell keeps swapping something in on every
>>> <Enter> keypress. This is cured by swapoff -a; swapon -a.
>>> If I correctly understood, this is what cow-swapin was supposed to cure.
>> 
>> Wasn't this fixed -- Andrea, Stephen?

> Just fixed in Linus's tree.

Definitely should be!  The fix went in in 2.1.123, so if you can
reproduce the problem on any later kernel, we'd like to hear about it.

--Stephen
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