From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:37:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000915213726.A9965@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009151915040.7748-100000@tux.rsn.hk-r.se>; from gandalf@wlug.westbo.se on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:28:43PM +0200
Martin Josefsson wrote:
> I've been trying to get my machine to swap but that seems hard with this
> new patch :) I have 0kB of swap used after 8h uptime, and I have been
> compiling, moving files between partitions and running md5sum on files
> (that was a big problem before, everything ended up on the active list and
> the swapping started and brought my machine down to a crawl)
No preemptive page-outs?
0kB swap means if you suddenly need a lot of memory, inactive
application pages have to be written to disk first. There are always
inactive application pages.
Maybe the stats are inaccurate.
-- Jamie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-15 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-14 4:30 Rik van Riel
2000-09-14 5:25 ` David S. Miller
2000-09-14 6:11 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-09-14 8:18 ` David S. Miller
2000-09-14 16:53 ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-14 17:49 ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-15 17:28 ` Martin Josefsson
2000-09-15 19:37 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2000-09-15 21:07 ` David Ford
2000-09-15 22:04 ` Rik van Riel
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