From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:54:12 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [uPATCH] small kswapd improvement ??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" Cc: linux-mm List-ID: On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote: > AHhhh!!! That could explain the odd behaviour of my 386 (5 megs of RAM, > masquerading/ppp and sick shell scripts) - it never quite made any sense > that after the first time it swapped, forevermore until forced to clean > out memory it would continuously touch the disk (the bdflush parameters > we set to sync every 15 minutes, so only swapping could explain it). My disk is a _lot_ more quiet than it used to be... This patch didn't have the you-can-push-linux-further effect I had hoped for, but it makes Linux a lot quieter under the same load. Actually, I was planning on a complete revamp of the scan-by-VMA algorithm in mm/vmscan.c, beginning with the removal of AGE_CLUSTER_FRACT, but maybe it works now :-) 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/ | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+