From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven)
To: Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@ucla.edu>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: test5-pre1 VM best its EVER been!
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:51:22 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m13DObS-000OVtC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <396F9F0A.99DFC1A2@ucla.edu>
In article <396F9F0A.99DFC1A2@ucla.edu> you wrote:
> Hi - I've been testing test5-pre1. I have a UP PPro 166, and 64Mb RAM.
> The last kernel that I tried was test3-p7, and it had some problems. It
> tended to swap when there was FREE (not cache) memory still available.
> Also, it never completely swapped out unused daemons, and tended to swap
> out large running processes, like netscape.
> test5-pre1 is wonderful. I mean, both the stats from vmstat, free, and
> xosview, and the interactive feel. I can REALLY run both netscape and
> quake and the same time! The system rarely hits the disk - which is a
> welcome change. Things the you might hope to be in the cache,
> apparently are...
I am much less happy. My 128Mb system will not stop freeing memory (from the
buffer/page caches) until at least 16 Mb is really free. This means I
typically end up with 400kb buffer and 20M cached, which could be much
higher.....
The swap behaviour seems OK though... only 8Mb in swap.
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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