Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:46:29 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Priority in Memory management |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Pradeep Vincent wrote:
> Instead of locking out all memory, being able to set priorities for > virtual memory regions comes across as a better idea. This way if the > system really really needs memory, kernel can reclaim the cache pages > but not just because somebody is writing something and it might seem > fair to reclaim the dataset cache.
Use the zone_reclaim feature in 2.6.16. zone reclaim will remove page cache pages if the memory on a node gets too tight. If you are on a non-NUMA system then light swapping will do the same. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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