Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:36:04 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hours rest |
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:33:48PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > If you have a better idea for memory management, I'd > > like to hear it ;) > > You know 2.4.0-test1-ac22-class++ beaten 2.4.0-test1-ac22-riel++ > under low memory scenario, right?
You know that the -ac* VM code was very different from the VM code that has been submitted recently, right? ;)
The VM code in the -ac* kernels concentrated on things like deferred swapout, while the real issues like multi-queue VM weren't present yet.
The newer VM patches leave out the deferred swapout and other issues, and instead keep all the "low-level" code equivalent to the old shrink_mmap(), with the only difference being the way we /select/ which pages undergo the different procedures.
Please take a look at the new VM before saying anything about it...
> The only thing it can be a problem for an alternate VM if there > would be user<->kernel API differences realted to the very > internal of the memory management so if possible I'd like if > that could be avoided.
Sure, lets get rid of /proc/meminfo ;)
But serious, if /proc/meminfo isn't there to give information about the internal memory use of the system, why do we have it? I don't see /proc/meminfo doing anything else than that...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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