From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA13391 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:17:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:15:50 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM improvements for 2.1.131 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Linux MM , Linux Kernel , Alan Cox List-ID: On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: >This is because 'swapped' data is added to the cache. It also >is because without it kswapd would not free memory in swap_out(). >Then, because it didn't free memory, it would continue to swap >out more and more and still more with no effect (remember the >removal of page aging?). Nono, I reversed the vmscan changes on my tree. On my tree when swap_out returns 1 it has really freed a page ;). I have many other differences... I am going to do some other interesting benchmark right now to understand if really my choices are the best as I think... Andrea Arcangeli PS to see other things grab arca-51. -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org