From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:26:19 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980226002406.9760A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980225144057.8068C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > We could simply prohibit the VM subsystem from swapping
> > out pages which have been allocated less than one second
> > ago, this way the movement of pages becomes 'slower', and
> > thrashing might get somewhat less.
>
> The reason I dislike rate-based things is that it is _so_ hard to give any
> kind of guarantees at all on the sanity of the thing. You can tweak the
> rates, but they don't have any logic to them, and most importantly they
> are very hard to make self-tweaking.
Yup, I don't like 'em either, but I proposed it anyways
in case anyone of you might like it :-)
Personally, I like balancing code too, if possible with
some balancing on the balancing code as well...
OK, we go with balancing code.
Rik.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-25 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-25 22:15 Rik van Riel
1998-02-25 22:48 ` your mail Linus Torvalds
1998-02-25 23:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-03-28 8:19 pnilesh
2000-03-28 13:26 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-09-04 12:01 Sahil
2000-09-04 15:35 ` your mail Rik van Riel
2001-06-08 1:36 jnn
2001-06-08 13:16 ` your mail Ralf Baechle
2001-08-04 11:10 Mahmoud Taghizadeh
2001-08-04 13:18 ` your mail Francois Romieu
2002-01-02 14:20 mehul radheshyam choube
2002-01-03 16:40 ` your mail Rik van Riel
2002-04-21 14:54 raciel
2002-04-21 19:12 ` your mail William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-24 5:08 (unknown), Anoop J.
2003-01-24 5:11 ` your mail David Lang
2003-01-24 6:06 ` John Alvord
2003-01-25 2:29 ` Jason Papadopoulos
2003-01-25 2:26 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-25 17:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-25 23:10 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-26 8:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-24 5:54 Anoop J.
2003-01-24 6:28 ` David Lang
2003-01-24 8:51 ` Anoop J.
2003-01-24 8:48 ` David Lang
2003-01-24 9:49 ` Anoop J.
2003-01-24 19:14 ` David Lang
2003-01-24 19:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
[not found] <1131.86.55.168.2.1170690089.squirrel@mail.thinknet.ro>
2007-02-05 12:36 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-06-16 16:33 Jan Kara
2010-06-16 22:15 ` your mail Dave Chinner
2010-06-22 2:59 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-06-22 13:54 ` Jan Kara
2010-06-22 14:12 ` Wu Fengguang
2012-10-04 16:50 Andrea Arcangeli
2012-10-04 18:17 ` your mail Christoph Lameter
2017-04-10 11:03 [PATCH -v2 0/9] mm: make movable onlining suck less Michal Hocko
2017-04-15 12:17 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-17 5:47 ` your mail Joonsoo Kim
2017-04-17 8:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-20 1:27 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-04-20 7:28 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-20 8:49 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-20 11:56 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-20 12:13 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-21 4:38 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-04-21 7:16 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-24 1:44 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-04-24 7:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-25 2:50 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-04-26 9:19 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-27 2:08 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-04-27 15:10 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] <20190225201635.4648-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2019-02-26 23:49 ` Roman Gushchin
2023-05-10 19:01 [PATCH] maple_tree: Fix a few documentation issues, Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-15 19:27 ` your mail Liam R. Howlett
2023-05-15 21:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-16 22:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-23 13:46 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-02-24 22:52 [PATCH v7 0/7] mseal system mappings jeffxu
2025-02-25 15:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-26 0:12 ` Jeff Xu
2025-02-26 5:42 ` your mail Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-28 0:55 ` Jeff Xu
2025-02-28 9:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-28 17:24 ` Jeff Xu
2025-02-28 17:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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