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 IAA10516 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:22:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:22:10 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: VM20 behavior on a 486DX/66Mhz with 16mb of RAM In-Reply-To: <19990116115459.A7544@hexagon> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nimrod Zimerman Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org