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 RAA10581 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:03:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:49:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl Subject: Re: VM: question In-Reply-To: <199804141724.MAA00666@kwr.hnv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: kwr@hnv.com Cc: linux-mm , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 kwr@kwr.hnv.com wrote: > memory", which sucks even on high-memory machines. I tried to get > reverse lookups implemented at one point, but things kept changing > under me and I gave up...there's way too many places you have to > change, IMHO... Stephen and Ben are currently implementing this, it will be in 2.3 :( Up until that time, we'll have to provide some clever hacks, like high and low water marks (leaving the disk idle for some time, preventing thrashing) and clustering. I'm not sure how to implement the high/low water mark however... ( Linus, do you have an idea on how to do this? ) Rik. +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Linux: - LinuxHQ MM-patches page | Scouting webmaster | | - kswapd ask-him & complain-to guy | Vries cubscout leader | | http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel/ | | +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+