From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:18:31 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Zlatko Calusic Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > OK, maybe I was too fast in concluding with that change. I'm > still trying to find out why is MM working bad in some > circumstances (see my other email to the list). > > Anyway, I would than suggest to introduce another /proc entry > and call it appropriately: max_async_pages. Because that is what > we care about, anyway. I'll send another patch. In fact, that's NOT what we care about. What we really care about is the number of disk seeks the VM subsystem has queued to disk, since it's seek time that causes other requests to suffer bad latency. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/