Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]] | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:04:08 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Boom. You just killed the machine with your patch, because maybe the > GPF_ATOMIC things are what the machine is doing. Imagine a machine that > acts as a router - it might not even be running any normal user processes > at _all_, but it had damn well better make sure that memory is always > available some way. "kswapd" did that for us, and Rik's happiness counts > as nothing in face of basic facts of life like that. Sorry.
Its performance properties are very interesting however. They do seem to suggest kswapd should be more of a last resort.
Alan
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