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From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@ucsd.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature?
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:19:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981127121948.A327@perlsupport.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199811271602.QAA00642@dax.scot.redhat.com>; from Stephen C. Tweedie on Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 04:02:51PM +0000

According to Stephen C. Tweedie:
> On reflection, there is a completely natural way of distinguishing
> between these two cases, and that is to extend the size of the
> shrink_mmap() pass whenever we encounter many recently touched pages.

This patch has _vastly_ improved my subjective impression of the VM
behavior of 130-pre3.  My computer is a laptop with 32M and a fairly
slow (non-DMA) hard drive; after this patch, things that used to be
quite slow -- especially Navigator -- seem much more snappy.

Thanks!
-- 
Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."
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  reply	other threads:[~1998-11-26 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <199811261236.MAA14785@dax.scot.redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.3.95.981126094159.5186D-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
1998-11-27 16:02   ` [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature? Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-27 17:19     ` Chip Salzenberg [this message]
1998-11-27 18:31     ` Linus Torvalds
1998-11-27 19:58     ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 11:15       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-30 23:13         ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 12:37       ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 15:12         ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 19:29           ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 22:27             ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-30 23:11               ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 20:20           ` Andrea Arcangeli
1998-11-30 22:28             ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-11-28  7:31     ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-30 11:13       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-30 15:08         ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-30 21:40         ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-30 22:00         ` Eric W. Biederman

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