Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:43:53 -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?
Btw, do you know /why/ this was the case?
I have a strong hunch this was because you moved some swap-out pages out of the way of the rest of the pages on the LRU list.
The new VM, as integrated in -test9-pre1, does the same thing, only for a lot more cases than your classzone patch did, achieving the same effect, only stronger and effective in more different situations.
Add to that page aging, and the drop-behind code that makes it possible to do streaming IO without putting memory pressure on the working set ....
(well, not in all cases ... drop_behind() and read-ahead don't work for mmap() yet)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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