From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from neon.transmeta.com (neon-best.transmeta.com [206.184.214.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA25118 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:34:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:33:59 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux-2.1.129.. In-Reply-To: <19981119223434.00625@boole.suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Dr. Werner Fink" Cc: Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm List-ID: 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 -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org