Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2000 06:40:52 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hours rest |
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> I've finally had a chance to test out the new VM patch on my 32mb system. > > It runs much, much better than the previous test8, and the > pages->swap change is actually much smoother than I had expected > it to be considering the recent talk about making it more > gradual. I'm against having the swap more gradual because of the > low amount of available memory and the high amount of memory > actually taken up by processes required for normal operation.
> So, please take my opinions into consideration when/if you > redesign the swap mechanism.
Oh I will. The "more smooth" swap code I am testing right now concentrates on swapping from processes that have been sleeping for longer than
cache size / inactive_target
seconds. I think this might actually help with the performance of low-memory systems, but I need to test this a bit before I know for sure ;)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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