Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:33:36 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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On 16 Sep 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> Is there a way to tell the VM to prune its cache? Or a way to limit > the amount of cache it uses?
Not yet, I'll make a quick hack for this when I get back next week. It's pretty obvious now that the 2.4 kernel cannot get enough information to select the right pages to evict from memory.
For 2.5 I'm making a VM subsystem with reverse mappings, the first iterations are giving very sweet performance so I will continue with this project regardless of what other kernel hackers might say ;)
cheers,
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