From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, akpm@osdl.org,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bob.picco@hp.com,
iwamoto@valinux.co.jp, christoph@lameter.com,
wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn, npiggin@suse.de, riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] mm: Page Replacement Policy Framework
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:48:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060323194832.d9f153a3.diegocg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603231003390.26286@g5.osdl.org>
El Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:15:47 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> escribio:
> IOW, just under half a _gigabyte_ of RAM is apparently considered to be
> low end, and this is when talking about low-end (modern) hardware!
If it's considered "low-end" it's because people actually uses that
memory for something and the system starts swapping, not because it's
trendy.
The "powerful machines who never swaps" are always a minority. Being geeks
as we are we try to have the greatest machine possible, but the vast majority
of real users are "underpowered" I'm not talking of pentium 1 stuff, I can bet
there're far more pentium 4 machines with 256 MB out there than with 1 GB.
I know you don't hit those problems because you use expensive machines
with lots of ram ;) But in the _real_ world, lots of the machines are
already wasting most of its ram by running the desktop environment alone.
Diego Calleja (A user with 1 GB of RAM who usually gets his system
into swapping easily by using desktop apps and could benefit from
better page replacement policies)
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-22 22:31 Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:31 ` [PATCH 01/34] mm: kill-page-activate.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:32 ` [PATCH 02/34] mm: page-replace-kconfig-makefile.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 23:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-22 22:32 ` [PATCH 03/34] mm: page-replace-insert.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:32 ` [PATCH 04/34] mm: page-replace-use_once.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:32 ` [PATCH 05/34] mm: page-replace-generic-pagevec.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:32 ` [PATCH 06/34] mm: page-replace-activate.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:32 ` [PATCH 07/34] mm: page-replace-move-macros.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:33 ` [PATCH 08/34] mm: page-replace-move-scan_control.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:33 ` [PATCH 09/34] mm: page-replace-move-isolate_lru_pages.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:33 ` [PATCH 10/34] mm: page-replace-reinsert.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:33 ` [PATCH 11/34] mm: page-replace-should_reclaim_mapped.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:33 ` [PATCH 12/34] mm: page-replace-shrink.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:33 ` [PATCH 13/34] mm: page-replace-mark-accessed.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:34 ` [PATCH 14/34] mm: page-replace-remove-mm_inline.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:34 ` [PATCH 15/34] mm: page-replace-rotate.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:34 ` [PATCH 16/34] mm: page-replace-init.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:34 ` [PATCH 17/34] mm: page-replace-info.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:34 ` [PATCH 18/34] mm: page-replace-counts.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:34 ` [PATCH 19/34] mm: page-replace-data.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:35 ` [PATCH 20/34] mm: page-replace-pg_flags.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:35 ` [PATCH 21/34] mm: page-replace-nonresident.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:35 ` [PATCH 22/34] mm: page-replace-shrink-new.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:35 ` [PATCH 23/34] mm: page-replace-documentation.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:35 ` [PATCH 24/34] mm: sum_cpu_var.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:35 ` [PATCH 25/34] mm: kswapd-writeout-wait.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:36 ` [PATCH 26/34] mm: clockpro-nonresident.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:36 ` [PATCH 27/34] mm: clockpro-ignore_token.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:36 ` [PATCH 28/34] mm: clockpro-PG_reclaim2.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:36 ` [PATCH 29/34] mm: clockpro-clockpro.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:36 ` [PATCH 30/34] mm: cart-nonresident.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:36 ` [PATCH 31/34] mm: cart-PG_reclaim3.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:37 ` [PATCH 32/34] mm: cart-cart.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:37 ` [PATCH 33/34] mm: cart-r.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:37 ` [PATCH 34/34] mm: random.patch Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-22 22:51 ` [PATCH 00/34] mm: Page Replacement Policy Framework Andrew Morton
2006-03-23 2:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-23 21:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-03-23 4:01 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-23 20:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-03-23 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-23 18:26 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-23 18:48 ` Diego Calleja [this message]
2006-03-23 19:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-03-23 22:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-03-23 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-23 20:59 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-24 15:06 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-28 23:05 ` Elladan
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