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    SubjectRe: [RFC] Using "page credits" as a solution for common thrashing scenarios
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    Eyal Lotem <eyal.lotem@gmail.com> writes:

    Replying to an old email.

    > * I think it is wrong for the kernel to evict the 15 pages of the bash,
    > xterm, X server's working set, as an example, in order for a
    > misbehaving process to have 1000015 instead of 1000000 pages in its
    > working set. EVEN if that misbehaving process is accessing its working
    > set far more aggressively.

    One problem in practice tends to be that it's hard to realiably detect
    that a process is misbehaving. The 1000000 page process might be your
    critical database, while the 15 page process is something very
    unimportant.

    -Andi

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    ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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