From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:12:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031212181206.GL15401@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312120658001.17287-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:00:30AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> > > Note that the inactive clean pages count (more or less)
> > > as free pages, too.
> >
> > But I should count it as "Inactive" right?
>
> Yeah.
OK.
> > What can happen to Inact_clean pages besides being freed, and used on
> > the free memory list?
>
> The data that's still in the page could be referenced again, in which
> case the page gets moved to the inactive dirty list and from there on
> to the active list.
>
> In effect, the inactive clean list is a "soft free" list, which means
> we can keep a larger number of pages almost-free, without wasting
> memory.
>
So it doesn't have to be dirty to go in the dirty list, only referenced?
What about Inact_laundry?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-12 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-09 0:00 Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo Mike Fedyk
2003-12-11 22:02 ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-11 22:23 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-11 22:42 ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-11 23:05 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-12 0:41 ` shm Rob Roschewsk
2003-12-12 0:43 ` shm Rob Roschewsk
2003-12-12 0:44 ` shm Rob Roschewsk
2003-12-12 0:45 ` shm Rob Roschewsk
2003-12-12 12:00 ` Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo Rik van Riel
2003-12-12 18:12 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-12-13 3:23 ` More questions about 2.6 /proc/meminfo was: (Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo) Mike Fedyk
2003-12-13 17:54 ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-14 1:44 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-15 0:17 ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-15 18:57 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-15 19:40 ` edjard
2003-12-15 21:57 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-16 4:10 ` Calculating total slab memory on 2.2/2.0 (was: More questions about 2.6 /proc/meminfo was: (Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo)) Mike Fedyk
2003-12-16 20:07 ` Re: Re: More questions about 2.6 /proc/meminfo was: (Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo) edjard
2003-12-17 1:12 ` [PATCH 2.4 Rmap] Add Inactive to /proc/meminfo was: Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo Mike Fedyk
2003-12-17 3:59 ` Rik van Riel
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