From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:45:15 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug 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: Linus Torvalds Cc: "David S. Miller" , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > /* > * Too many active pages? That implies that we don't have enough > * of a working set for page_launder() to do a good job. Start by > * walking the VM space.. > */ > if ((nr_active_pages >> 1) > total_pages) > swap_out(); > > /* > * This is where we actually free memory > */ > page_launder(..); Ahhh, but this is NOT the balancing problem we're trying to pin down in 2.4... The (possible) problem is in the balancing between swap_out() and refill_inactive_scan(). 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/