Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:19:48 -0500 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature? |
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According to Stephen C. Tweedie: > On reflection, there is a completely natural way of distinguishing > between these two cases, and that is to extend the size of the > shrink_mmap() pass whenever we encounter many recently touched pages.
This patch has _vastly_ improved my subjective impression of the VM behavior of 130-pre3. My computer is a laptop with 32M and a fairly slow (non-DMA) hard drive; after this patch, things that used to be quite slow -- especially Navigator -- seem much more snappy.
Thanks! -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> "When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."
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