From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:01:30 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6-3+ VM rebalancing Message-ID: <20000426120130.E3792@redhat.com> References: <20000425113616.A7176@stormix.com> <3905EB26.8DBFD111@mandrakesoft.com> <20000425120657.B7176@stormix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000425120657.B7176@stormix.com>; from sim@stormix.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:06:58PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Simon Kirby Cc: Jeff Garzik , riel@nl.linux.org, Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ben LaHaise , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: 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 -- 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/