Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2000 05:29:29 -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:
> I don't know the internals of other OSes so I've no idea if that > was a generic problem or not (guess why I started playing with > linux: just to finally see the internals of an OS :) thus I > don't know if this problem is generic or not.
Please take the time to work on your background knowledge, it would be a good thing for you and for Linux. You're a smart guy and it's a shame to see you waste your time reinventing the wheel.
> Just to make sure if we're talking about the same thing, do you > remeber when I told about the bigger problem under swap in > 2.4.x? I remeber I explained this to you, SCT and Alexey.
Remember when I explained to you that this was exactly what I wanted to do in the new VM, except that I didn't see why we would want to restrict it to swap pages only?
> If you fixed it I'm very happy and I thank you.
If you have the time, please read the source of the new VM code. It would be nice to have your input on it too.
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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