lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1999]   [Jan]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: arca-vm-8 [Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm , improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]]
    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 ;)


    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2005-03-22 13:49    [W:4.068 / U:0.096 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site