From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:06:58 -0700 From: Simon Kirby Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6-3+ VM rebalancing Message-ID: <20000425120657.B7176@stormix.com> References: <20000425113616.A7176@stormix.com> <3905EB26.8DBFD111@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3905EB26.8DBFD111@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:59:50PM -0400 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Garzik Cc: riel@nl.linux.org, Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ben LaHaise , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:59:50PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Simon Kirby wrote: > > Hrmm.. I guess the ideal solution would be that swappable pages would age > > just like cache pages and everything else? Then, if a particular > > program's page hasn't been accessed for 60 seconds and there is nothing > > older in the page cahce, it would swap out... > > Again a policy decision... I think such a feature should be present and > enabled by default, but there are some people who would prefer that > their configuration not do this, or would prefer that the timeout for > old pages be far longer than 60 seconds. Sorry, I made a mistake there while writing..I was going to give an example and wrote 60 seconds, but I didn't actually mean to limit anything to 60 seconds. I just meant to make a really big global lru that contains everything including page cache and swap. :) Simon- [ Stormix Technologies Inc. ][ NetNation Communications Inc. ] [ sim@stormix.com ][ sim@netnation.com ] [ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employers. ] -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/