Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:53:18 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Very aggressive swapping after 2 hours rest |
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:29:29AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > 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? > > You _must_ do that _only_ for the swap_cache, that's a specific > issue of the swap_cache during swapout (notenote: not during > swapin!).
Which part of "why" did you not understand?
I see no reason why we should not do the same trick for mmap()ed pages and maybe other memory too...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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