Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 May 2001 22:32:12 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 |
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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:54:09PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > You're right. It should never dump too much data at once. OTOH, if > > > those cleaned pages are really old (front of reclaim list), there's no > > > value in keeping them either. Maybe there should be a slow bleed for > > > mostly idle or lightly loaded conditions. > > > > If you don't think it's worthwhile keeping the oldest pages > > in memory around, please hand me your excess DIMMS ;) > > Sorry, Rik, you can't have that that DIMM. You know, you are > developing memory managment, and we can't have you having too much > memory available ;-).
IMVHO every developer involved in memory-management (and indeed, any software development; the authors of ntpd comes in mind here) should have a 386 with 4MB of RAM and some 16MB of swap. Nowadays I have the luxury of a 486 with 8MB of RAM and 32MB of swap as a firewall, but it's still a pain to work with.
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