From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39C28F88.4F0F8E8A@kalifornia.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:07:20 -0700 From: David Ford Reply-To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8 References: <20000915213726.A9965@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------9FDB3C736EF3D36388BD415F" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Martin Josefsson , Rik van Riel , "David S. Miller" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com List-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9FDB3C736EF3D36388BD415F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jamie Lokier wrote: > 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. Perhaps, but I run most of my machines without swap. They are between 64 and 256M. Servers are pretty constant in their mem usage, I use about 75%. The workstations sometimes run down to a few megs free (read 'using netscape') and I then turn on a swapfile. But all in all they generally do dandy without swap for days on some, months on others. -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." --------------9FDB3C736EF3D36388BD415F Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="david.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for David Ford Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="david.vcf" begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE org: adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:david@kalifornia.com title:Blue Labs Developer x-mozilla-cpt:;28256 fn:David Ford end:vcard --------------9FDB3C736EF3D36388BD415F-- -- 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/