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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: rmap15a swappy?
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:08:03 -0200 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50L.0212130007070.17748-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6uisxzrl00.fsf@zork.zork.net>

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Sean Neakums wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Sean Neakums wrote:
> >
> > Indeed, the older rmaps swapped later.  However, swapping
> > a little bit earlier turns out to be faster for almost all
> > workloads.
>
> Oh right, because if you get sudden memory pressure you have a bunch
> of pages that you can just throw away without writeout?

Exactly.

> Anyway, that's nifty.  I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a
> regression.

I know there are a few regressions in "strange" corner cases,
stuff I can easily reproduce with special test programs but
haven't seen in real life. I'm still ironing out those.

regards,

Rik
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      reply	other threads:[~2002-12-13  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-12 17:46 Sean Neakums
2002-12-12 21:14 ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-12 21:21   ` Sean Neakums
2002-12-13  2:08     ` Rik van Riel [this message]

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