On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> Well, here is a workload that performs worse on 2.4.0 than on 2.2.19pre,
> The typical machine is a dual Intel box with 512MB RAM and 512MB swap.
How does 2.4 perform when you add an extra GB of swap ?
2.4 keeps dirty pages in the swap cache, so you will need
more swap to run the same programs...
Linus: is this something we want to keep or should we give
the user the option to run in a mode where swap space is
freed when we swap in something non-shared ?
regards,
Rik
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