Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:15:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM improvements for 2.1.131 |
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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>This is because 'swapped' data is added to the cache. It also >is because without it kswapd would not free memory in swap_out(). >Then, because it didn't free memory, it would continue to swap >out more and more and still more with no effect (remember the >removal of page aging?).
Nono, I reversed the vmscan changes on my tree. On my tree when swap_out returns 1 it has really freed a page ;). I have many other differences... I am going to do some other interesting benchmark right now to understand if really my choices are the best as I think...
Andrea Arcangeli
PS to see other things grab arca-51.
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