From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:17:54 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: VM tuning patch, take 2 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: Jonathan Morton Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: > I forgot to mention, I also have applied the patch which causes > allocations to wait on kswapd. As far as I can tell, the actual > numbers attached to the ageing matter far less than how they are > applied. Ahhh cool, this should indeed cause lots of CPU eating problems. I have a similar patch which makes processes wait on IO completion when they find too many dirty pages on the inactive_dirty list ;) 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://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) -- 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-mm.org/