| Date | Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:33:59 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.129.. |
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: > > Yes on a 512MB system it's a great win ... on a 64 system I see > something like a ``swapping weasel'' under high load.
The reason the page aging was removed was that I had people who did studies and told me that the page aging hurts on low-memory machines.
On something like the machine I have, page aging makes absolutely no difference whatsoever, either positive or negative.
Stephen, you're the one who did the studies. Comments?
Linus
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