From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.fys.ruu.nl (max.fys.ruu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20434 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:33:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:29:45 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: memory limitation test kit (tm) :-) In-Reply-To: <199802261910.UAA13206@boole.fs100.suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Dr. Werner Fink" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: > Hmmm ... this will lead to increasing swap I/O. This because the > tsk which currently swaps in a needed page maybe lose an other > needed page ... even it not lose it the age of such a page is > decreased ... just like a handicap. I tested it and lost :-) Better next time... This patch only shows that we need to go another way, as I pointed out in my post to linux-mm somewhat earlier today. Now we need to focus on design first, before we start coding around :-) Rik. +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ | For Linux mm-patches, go to | "I'm busy managing memory.." | | my homepage (via LinuxHQ). | H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl | | ...submissions welcome... | http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel/ | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+