On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > I've finally had a chance to test out the new VM patch on my 32mb system. > > It runs much, much better than the previous test8, and the > pages->swap change is actually much smoother than I had expected > it to be considering the recent talk about making it more > gradual. I'm against having the swap more gradual because of the > low amount of available memory and the high amount of memory > actually taken up by processes required for normal operation. > So, please take my opinions into consideration when/if you > redesign the swap mechanism. Oh I will. The "more smooth" swap code I am testing right now concentrates on swapping from processes that have been sleeping for longer than cache size / inactive_target seconds. I think this might actually help with the performance of low-memory systems, but I need to test this a bit before I know for sure ;) regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Byron Stanoszek
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Helge Hafting
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Byron Stanoszek
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Rik van Riel
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hou... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hours rest Rik van Riel