From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage" From: Michael Rothwell In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 05 Aug 2001 00:19:43 -0400 Message-Id: <996985193.982.7.camel@gromit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Black , Ben LaHaise , Daniel Phillips , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton List-ID: On 04 Aug 2001 10:08:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Mike Black wrote: > > > > I'm testing 2.4.8-pre4 -- MUCH better interactivity behavior now. > > Good.. However.. [...] before we get too happy about the interactive thing, let's > remember that sometimes interactivity comes at the expense of throughput, > and maybe if we fix the throughput we'll be back where we started. Could there be both interactive and throughput optimizations, and a way to choose one or the other at run-time? Or even just at compile time? -- 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/