From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so721647wra for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:48:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:48:32 +0100 From: Diego Calleja Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] mm: Page Replacement Policy Framework Message-Id: <20060323194832.d9f153a3.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20060322223107.12658.14997.sendpatchset@twins.localnet> <20060322145132.0886f742.akpm@osdl.org> <20060323205324.GA11676@dmt.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds 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 List-ID: El Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:15:47 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds 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) -- 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: email@kvack.org