Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:16:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Thinking again about it, I guess I would prefer a FIFO-list of allocated pages. > This would allow to "know" the age simply by its position in the list. You > wouldn't need a timestamp then, and even better it works equally well for > systems with high vm load and low, because you do not deal with absolute time > comparisons, but relative. > That sounds pretty good for me.
The problem is that when many things effect the optimal ratio of text, data, buffer and free space a solution which doesn't measure all the important factors will produce sub-optimal results. Your proposal is simple and elegant, but I think it's too simple to produce good results. See my reply to Linus' comments.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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