Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:24:07 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) |
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On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:41:20AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > > [...] but I'm quite confortable to say that up to 16G (included) 4:4 > > is worthless unless you've to deal with the rmap waste IMHO. [...] > > i've seen workloads on 8G RAM systems that easily filled up the ~800 MB > lowmem zone. (it had to do with many files and having them as a big
was that a kernel with rmap or w/o rmap?
> but i'm quite strongly convinced that 'getting rid' of the 'pte chain > overhead' in favor of questionable lowmem space gains for a dying > (high-end server) platform is very shortsighted. [getting rid of them > for purposes of the 64-bit platforms could be OK, but the argumentation > isnt that strong there i think.]
disagree, the reason I'm doing it is for the 64bit platforms, I can't care less about x86. the vm is dogslow with rmap. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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