From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.1.129..
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:33:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981119143242.13021A-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19981119223434.00625@boole.suse.de>
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
>
> Yes on a 512MB system it's a great win ... on a 64 system I see
> something like a ``swapping weasel'' under high load.
The reason the page aging was removed was that I had people who did
studies and told me that the page aging hurts on low-memory machines.
On something like the machine I have, page aging makes absolutely
no difference whatsoever, either positive or negative.
Stephen, you're the one who did the studies. Comments?
Linus
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.95.981119002335.838A-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
1998-11-19 21:34 ` Linux-2.1.129 Dr. Werner Fink
1998-11-19 21:58 ` Linux-2.1.129 Rik van Riel
1998-11-20 12:09 ` Linux-2.1.129 Dr. Werner Fink
1998-11-19 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
1998-11-23 17:13 ` Linux-2.1.129 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-23 19:16 ` Linux-2.1.129 Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-23 20:02 ` Linux-2.1.129 Linus Torvalds
1998-11-23 21:25 ` Linux-2.1.129 Rik van Riel
1998-11-23 22:19 ` Linux-2.1.129 Dr. Werner Fink
1998-11-24 3:37 ` Linux-2.1.129 Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-24 15:25 ` Linux-2.1.129 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-24 17:33 ` Linux-2.1.129 Linus Torvalds
1998-11-24 19:59 ` Linux-2.1.129 Rik van Riel
1998-11-24 20:45 ` Linux-2.1.129 Linus Torvalds
1998-11-25 14:19 ` Linux-2.1.129 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-25 21:07 ` Linux-2.1.129 Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-26 12:57 ` Linux-2.1.129 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-25 20:33 ` Linux-2.1.129 Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-23 19:46 ` Linux-2.1.129 Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-23 21:18 ` Linux-2.1.129 Rik van Riel
1998-11-24 6:28 ` Linux-2.1.129 Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-24 7:56 ` Linux-2.1.129 Rik van Riel
1998-11-24 15:48 ` Linux-2.1.129 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-24 15:38 ` Linux-2.1.129 Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-23 20:12 ` Linux-2.1.129 Rik van Riel
1998-11-23 20:53 ` Running 2.1.129 at extrem load [patch] (Was: Linux-2.1.129..) Dr. Werner Fink
1998-11-23 21:59 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-23 22:35 ` Dr. Werner Fink
1998-11-24 12:38 ` Dr. Werner Fink
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