From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: "M.H.VanLeeuwen" <vanl@megsinet.net>
Cc: andihartmann@freenet.de, riel@conectiva.com.br,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, andrea@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:53:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011231185350.1ca25281.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C309CDC.DEA9960A@megsinet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0112292256490.24031-100000@imladris.surriel.com> <3C2F04F6.7030700@athlon.maya.org> <3C309CDC.DEA9960A@megsinet.net>
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:14:04 -0600
"M.H.VanLeeuwen" <vanl@megsinet.net> wrote:
> [...]
> vmscan patch:
>
> a. instead of calling swap_out as soon as max_mapped is reached, continue to
try> to free pages. this reduces the number of times we hit
try_to_free_pages() and> swap_out().
I experimented with this some time ago, but found out it hit performance and
(to my own surprise) did not do any good at all. Have you tried this
stand-alone/on top of the rest to view its results?
Regards,
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0112292256490.24031-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
[not found] ` <3C2F04F6.7030700@athlon.maya.org>
2001-12-31 17:14 ` [PATCH] [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable M.H.VanLeeuwen
2001-12-31 17:53 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2001-12-31 20:13 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
2002-01-04 2:14 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
2002-01-04 12:33 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-04 14:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-04 14:24 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-04 14:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-05 2:20 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
2002-01-04 14:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-05 19:47 ` José Luis Domingo López
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