On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:31:19 -0500 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the attached patch frees the swap space of already resident pages > when swap space starts getting tight, instead of only freeing up > the swap space taken up by newly swapped in pages. > > This should result in the swap space of pages that remain resident > in memory being freed, allowing kswapd more chances to actually swap > a page out (instead of rotating it back onto the active list). Fair enough. How do we work out if this helps things? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

