From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:14:45 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: More vm benchmarking Message-Id: <20040225171445.148d99a1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <403D4303.1020709@cyberone.com.au> References: <403C66D2.6010302@cyberone.com.au> <20040225014757.4c79f2af.akpm@osdl.org> <403C7181.6050103@cyberone.com.au> <20040225020425.2c409844.akpm@osdl.org> <20040225035043.6c536d99.akpm@osdl.org> <403D4303.1020709@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Nikita@Namesys.COM List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > > You would > expect ZONE_NORMAL to have more pages reclaimed from it > because there should be more pressure on it. Why? The only things which should be special about ZONE_NORMAL which I can think of are: a) All the early-allocated pinned memory is sitting there and b) If you start an app which uses a lot of memory, its text pages will probabyl be in ZONE_NORMAL while ZONE_DMA will contain just bss and pagecache. -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org