From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 17:32:52 +0200 From: Ingo Oeser Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 Message-ID: <20010520173252.Q754@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mikeg@wen-online.de on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Rik van Riel , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > I'm not sure why that helps. I didn't put it in as a trick or > anything though. I put it in because it didn't seem like a > good idea to ever have more cleaned pages than free pages at a > time when we're yammering for help.. so I did that and it helped. The rationale for this is easy: free pages is wasted memory, clean pages is hot, clean cache. The best state a cache can be in. Regards Ingo Oeser -- To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load. -- 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/