Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:59:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Peter Magnusson <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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Jan Harkes wrote:
> What do you consider as good VM?
When programs that isnt used are swapped out, or parts of them like it worked in < 2.4.7.
> Because pages aren't 'aged' until there is swap allocated for them, your > kernel should actually work better if it has a lot of pages backed by > swap. The only thing is, we don't really make the right decision about
It doesnt. It just gets slower. If it really become faster i would not have written my orginal posting.
> which pages to swap out, but that's just a detail. > > IMHO. A large number of cached/active pages == good.
IMHO:
Use the swap as little as possible == good. Do you think i have 512 Mbyte of RAM just because i want the kernel to swap out lotsa stuff? No, because it shouldnt have the need for swapping out stuff.
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