Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:40:50 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) |
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> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > One problem we're running into here is that there are absolutely > no tools to measure some of the things rmap is supposed to fix, > like page replacement.
But page replacement is a means to an end. One thing tht would be very interesting to know is how well the basic VM assumptions about locality work in a Linux server, desktop, and embedded environment.
You have a LRU approximation that is supposed to approximate working sets that were originally understood and measured on < 1Meg machines with static libraries, tiny cache, no GUI and no mmap.
L.T. writes:
> Read up on positivism.
It's been discredited as recursively unsound reasoning.
--------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com
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