From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by fenrus.demon.nl via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for linux-mm@kvack.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:51:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:51:22 +0200 (CEST) From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven) Subject: Re: test5-pre1 VM best its EVER been! In-Reply-To: <396F9F0A.99DFC1A2@ucla.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Benjamin Redelings I Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/