From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (bcrl@localhost) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA07984 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 01:00:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 01:00:12 -0500 (U) From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: Slow memory support Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@mirkwood.dummy.home Reply-To: H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl To: Pavel Machek cc: linux-mm Subject: Re: Slow memory support In-Reply-To: <19971217221622.50179@Elf.mj.gts.cz> Message-ID: Approved: ObHack@localhost Organization: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote: > This is what I do. (I only put buffers there, for now). But, what > about you have 64Meg of normal and 64Meg of slow memory? I doubt > you'll find 64Meg worth of buffers and page tables. Hmm, what about putting everything in slow memory, except for executable code... Or (with Ben's patch) we could move 'overly active' pages to fast memory and other pages to slow memory, with a max amount of pages we could move every second. 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/ | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+