Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 17:32:52 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 |
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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > I'm not sure why that helps. I didn't put it in as a trick or > anything though. I put it in because it didn't seem like a > good idea to ever have more cleaned pages than free pages at a > time when we're yammering for help.. so I did that and it helped.
The rationale for this is easy: free pages is wasted memory, clean pages is hot, clean cache. The best state a cache can be in.
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