From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:19:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: cp file /dev/zero <-> cache [was Re: increasing page size] In-Reply-To: <199807081354.OAA03355@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" , Rik van Riel , Linux MM , Linux Kernel List-ID: On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >I'm unconvinced. It's pretty clear that the underlying problem is that >the cache is far too agressive when you are copying large amounts of >data around. The fact that interactive performance is bad suggests not >that the swapping algorithm is making bad decisions, but that it is >being forced to work with far too little physical memory due to the >cache size. Yes, this is exactly what I think too. Andrea[s] Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org