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 NAA19611 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:41:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:40:22 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: [patch] arca-vm-29, nr_freeable_pages working now Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux@billabong.demon.co.uk, zimerman@deskmail.com, mauelsha@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de, gerritse@wnet.bos.nl, dlux@dlux.sch.bme.hu, jalvo@cloud9.net, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, steve@netplus.net, "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I have a new VM patch. Unfortunately it's impossible for me to extract it clean from my tree without waste tons of time. So to try it you'll have to apply my new whole 2.2.0-pre9_arca-1 patch (that include also some other new stuff). ftp://e-mind.com/pub/linux/arca-tree/2.2.0-pre9_arca-1.gz I am interested about benchmark results and comments if you'll try it. I am interested also about the low memory feeling. It seems rock solid here and I had a > x2 improvement against previous code (with 128Mbyte of RAM). Iteractive feel seems still quite good. With this patch you'll have a /proc/sys/vm/pager with one number into it. Such value is the percentage of freeable pages you want during heavy swap. The most this percentage is high the most your system will run smoother, but the applications that needs memory will run slower. As default it's set to 5%. Andrea Arcangeli -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/