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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:06:56 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: Rising io_load results Re: 2.5.63-mm1
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Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:01 am, Dave McCracken wrote:
> > --On Thursday, February 27, 2003 13:44:03 -0800 Andrew Morton
> >
> > <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >> Mapped:       4294923652 kB
> > >
> > > Well that's gotta hurt.  This metric is used in making writeback
> > > decisions.  Probably the objrmap patch.
> >
> > Oops.  You're right.  Here's a patch to fix it.
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> This looks better after a run:
> 
> MemTotal:       256156 kB
> ...
> Mapped:        4546752 kB

No, it is still wrong.  Mapped cannot exceed MemTotal.