From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:23:51 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: slablru for 2.5.32-mm1 In-Reply-To: <3D6D3F88.5E7A1972@zip.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ed Tomlinson , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > But we do need to slowly sift through the active list even when the > inactive list is enormously bigger. Otherwise, completely dead pages > will remain in-core forever if there's a lot of pagecache activity going > on. Doesn't that just indicate we want to get rid of use-once and replace it with something slightly more predictable ? regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/