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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:54:16 GMT
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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [uPATCH] small kswapd improvement ???
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To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
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Hi,

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:05:18 +0100 (MET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl> said:

> Hi,
> I remember the 1.1 or 1.2 days when Stephen reworked the
> swap code and I played around with a small piece of
> vmscan.c. Back then a simple bug was encountered and 'fixed'
> by always starting the memory scan at adress 0, which gives
> a highly unfair and inefficient aging process.

Ouch --- I wonder how much this is hurting 2.0.33.  I think I'll have
to try that, and perhaps look at this for 2.0.34/LMP... 

Thanks,
 Stephen.