Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:05:22 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: page pre-swapping + moving it on cache-list |
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> What's the use of an inactive_clean list anyway, or the effective > difference between its members and the members of memfree (I suspect > such a list from the output of /proc/meminfo)?
Pages on the inactive_clean list contain data. Throwing away data when you can keep it in memory isn't the smartest thing.
> Besides the fact, that the splitting in two lists prevents proper > defragmentation
Patches to fix this thing while still allowing us to keep the data in memory for most pages are appreciated. Patches to the universe to give me more than 24 hours a day, too ;)
cheers,
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