From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:49:02 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Fairness in love and swapping In-Reply-To: <199802262233.WAA03878@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Rogier Wolff , torvalds@transmeta.com, blah@kvack.org, nahshon@actcom.co.il, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, paubert@iram.es, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > What we really need is that some mechanism that actually determines > > in the first and last case that the system is thrashing like hell, > > and that "swapping" (as opposed to paging) is becoming a required > > strategy. > > True. Any takers for this? :) Yup. Here's one :-) I've got the NetBSD source (with comments dating back to '84 and possibly before :-) and parts of the Digital Unix system administators tuning guide next to me, so I have some idea as to what to do... But still, we need to come up with a general idea of the algorithms first (if you don't believe this, take a look at my memory-limit patch earlier today..). 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/ | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+