From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: riel@nl.linux.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.3.x mem balancing
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:11:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3905DFCF.B8695E16@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.21.0004251437540.10408-100000@duckman.conectiva
Rik van Riel wrote:
> Another thing which we probably want before 2.4 is scanning
> big processes more agressively than small processes. I've
> implemented most of what is needed for that and it seems to
> have a good influence on performance because:
> - small processes suffer less from the presence of memory hogs
> - memory hogs have their pages aged more agressively, making it
> easier for them to do higher throughput from/to swap or disk
Since you do not mention a new sysctl here...
The change you propose is policy. Favoring interactivity over memory
hogs is not always a good idea and should be left up to the sysadmin not
kernel hacker to decide.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-25 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004250401520.4898-100000@alpha.random>
2000-04-25 16:57 ` 2.3.x mem balancing Linus Torvalds
2000-04-25 17:50 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-25 18:11 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2000-04-25 18:33 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-25 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-25 19:27 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-26 0:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-26 1:19 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-26 1:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-26 2:10 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-26 11:24 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-26 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-26 17:13 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-26 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-27 13:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-26 14:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-26 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-26 17:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-26 16:03 Mark_H_Johnson.RTS
2000-04-26 17:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-26 17:36 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-26 21:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-26 17:43 ` Kanoj Sarcar
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2000-04-26 19:06 frankeh
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