Comment 343 for bug 620074

IMO, this bug has long past the point where it is useful.

There are far too many people posting with different issues.

There is too much noise to filter through to find a single bug.

There aren't any interested kernel developers following the bug.

The bug needs to be closed and reopened with separate bugs for each issue. Each issue should be reproducible with the latest 2.6.30-rc kernel with a simple test case.

Anything else will just result in another huge bug with 300+ comments and no kernel developer interest.

(In reply to comment #329)
> @unggnu: this is not a kernel issue?!!! If multiple apps are trying to
> reserve
> more RAM than is available and thus causing continuous access to swap

It is not a kernel issue. It is a system configuration issue. If you have a half dozen large memory processes trying to fight for more memory than is available in the system causing each of those processes to be continuously swapped in and out as they fight to run, you're going to get horrible performance.

You either need more memory, less swap so that the OOM killer can kill a process or need to avoid running so many large memory processes in parallel.