Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:35:43 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: arca-vm-8 [Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm , improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]] |
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > This first patch allow swap_out to have a more fine grined weight. Should > > help at least in low memory envinronments. > > The basic reason I didn't want to do this was that I thought it was wrong > to try to base _any_ decision on any virtual memory sizes. The reason is > simply that I think RSS isn't a very interesting thing to look at.
But now I am not looking at RSS, I am looking only at total_vm. The point of the patch is only to be _balanced_ between passes even if in the system there are some processes with a total_vm of 1Giga and some processes that has a total_vm of 1kbyte. In normal conditions the patch _should_ make no differences... This in my theory at least ;)
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