Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:02:06 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: VM20 behavior on a 486DX/66Mhz with 16mb of RAM |
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Hi,
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:22:10 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> Setting an high limit for the cache when we are low memory is easy doable. > Comments from other mm guys?
Horrible --- smells like the old problem of "oh, our VM is hopeless at tuning performance itself, so let's rely on magic numbers to constrain it to reasonable performance". I'd much much much much rather see a VM which manages to work well without having to be constrained by tricks like that (although by all means supply extra boundary limits for use in special cases: just don't enable them on a default system).
--Stephen
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