Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 1999 22:11:47 GMT | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | | Subject | Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] |
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Hi,
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:07:13 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Chris Evans wrote: >> Yes. Imagine the paging in of big binary case. The page faults will occur >> all over the place, not in a nice sequential order. The page-in clusters >> stuff _doubled_ performance of paging in certain big static binaries.
> I think that if it helped it means that the swap cache got shrunk too much > early due a not good free paging algorithm.
Not in the slightest. We're talking about the things like the performance of starting up a fresh new copy of netscape. Swapout has nothing to do with it in that case: we are starting from a ground state where the binary is completely uncached. The clustered pagein has a huge impact in that case.
--Stephen
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