Re: SWAPFAIL_MISS in 2.3 (nevermind)

Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> Joe Cooper wrote:
> >
> > This has been discussed a couple of times by other folks in the past two
> > months but no solution has been presented. So I thought I'd bring it up
> > again to see if anything has been figured out.
> >
> > In 2.3.STABLE3 (and STABLE2 as well...not sure about STABLE1), an
> > async-io compile will begin losing it's cache and reporting
> > SWAPFAIL_MISS entries after a short time under load. If I run for a few
> > hours under load, the hit rate will drop from (for example, on a
> > Polymix-2 workload) 55% to 30% (mostly MEM_HITs).

After speaking to Adrian, it looks like this is a 'feature' of the new
squids, wherein the cache will stop swapping to disk when overloaded.
Good feature...bad documentation. ;-)

So...nevermind.
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Received on Thu Jun 08 2000 - 14:18:58 MDT