8 Jun
2006
8 Jun
'06
6:13 a.m.
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Feizhou wrote on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:33:34 +0800:
The patch only affects Intel processor-based boxes.
Machines in question are intel-based, PIII or Celeron, no "new" processor, though. As I said it cannot be a general problem, maybe it affects P4 machines or so. It doesn't seem to affect the machines with CentOS 4.3 I use.
Same here. PIII boxes.
The interesting figure in your free output is that there are 0 buffers on the RHEL machine.
Precisely because that patch changed the vm to behave like that. That patch don't pay any attention to swappiness or what not. It puts memory pressure on running processes instead.