From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>
To: Nimrod Zimerman <zimerman@deskmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: VM20 behavior on a 486DX/66Mhz with 16mb of RAM
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:22:10 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990116141939.701A-100000@laser.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990116115459.A7544@hexagon>
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Nimrod Zimerman wrote:
> Personally, I don't like the way the pager works. It is too magical. Change
> 'priority', and it might work better. Why? Because. I much preferred the old
> approach, of being able to simply tell the cache (and buffers, though I
> don't see this unless I explicitly try to enlarge it) to *never*, *ever* grow
> over some arbitrary limit. This is far better for smaller machines, at
> least as far as I can currently see.
Setting an high limit for the cache when we are low memory is easy doable.
Comments from other mm guys?
Andrea Arcangeli
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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1999-01-16 13:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
1999-01-16 16:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-19 18:02 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-01-19 20:09 ` John Alvord
1999-01-19 20:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-21 14:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-01-21 19:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-23 19:16 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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