From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:46:58 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache In-Reply-To: <01040507350800.00699@oscar> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ed Tomlinson Cc: sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > I am very aware that heavy paging, which is ok _if_ you have the > bandwidth, and thrashing are different. So can we conclude that for a simple "thrashing approximation" we should at least measure if we're loading the disk subsystem heavily ? (heavy disk load -> more disk seeks -> self-perpetuating situation) 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/