From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from clavin.efn.org (root@clavin.efn.org [206.163.176.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA22454 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 00:24:00 -0500 From: Steve VanDevender MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <13930.5333.536721.146489@tzadkiel.efn.org> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:23:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] swapin readahead and fixes In-Reply-To: References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Cc: H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl, chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk, linux-mm@kvack.org, Alan Cox List-ID: Alan Cox writes: > > I will compile a new patch (against 2.1.130 again, since > > 2.1.131 contains mostly VM mistakes that I want reversed) > > this weekend... > > 2.1.131 is materially faster here than any of the variants I've tried. Are > you sure ? I find 2.1.131 to be much better than its recent predecessors in terms of reduced swap activity with the same set of applications loaded (X, XEmacs, netscape). Pages are staying in memory when they used to be swapped in and out all the time. Whatever changed between 2.1.130 and 2.1.131 was hardly any sort of mistake, as far as I'm concerned. -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org