Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:26:34 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kswapd performance fix |
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Hi,
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:30:59 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> said:
> The patch should apply to any 2.2 or 2.3 kernel, but for > 2.3 it'll have the interesting side effect of nullifying > the (minimal) page aging that's going on there.
Have you actually tested the impact of this under a variety of load conditions? In the past we have seen such apparently trivial changes completely break the VM balance under certain loads.
--Stephen
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