From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Simon Kirby <sim@stormix.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
riel@nl.linux.org, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6-3+ VM rebalancing
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:01:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000426120130.E3792@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000425120657.B7176@stormix.com>; from sim@stormix.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:06:58PM -0700
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:06:58PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote:
>
> 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. :)
Doesn't work. If you do that, a "find / | grep ..." swaps out
everything in your entire system.
Getting the VM to respond properly in a way which doesn't freak out
in the mass-filescan case is non-trivial. Simple LRU over all pages
simply doesn't cut it.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-26 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-23 2:08 Rik van Riel
2000-04-25 1:25 ` Simon Kirby
2000-04-25 15:09 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-25 15:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-25 17:20 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-25 18:36 ` Simon Kirby
2000-04-25 18:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-04-25 19:06 ` Simon Kirby
2000-04-25 19:34 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-26 11:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-04-26 11:15 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-26 12:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-26 12:45 ` David S. Miller
2000-04-26 11:25 ` David S. Miller
2000-04-26 13:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-26 13:11 ` David S. Miller
2000-04-26 15:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-26 15:25 ` David S. Miller
2000-04-26 16:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-27 20:28 ` Simon Kirby
2000-04-27 22:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-04-26 13:46 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-26 14:33 ` David S. Miller
2000-04-26 16:31 ` Andi Kleen
2000-04-26 15:28 ` David S. Miller
2000-04-26 15:41 ` Andi Kleen
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