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.