Re: arca-vm-8 [Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm , improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]]

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-07T23:36:54Z

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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> > This first patch allow swap_out to have a more fine grined weight. Should
> > help at least in low memory envinronments.
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> The basic reason I didn't want to do this was that I thought it was wrong
> to try to base _any_ decision on any virtual memory sizes. The reason is
> simply that I think RSS isn't a very interesting thing to look at.

But now I am not looking at RSS, I am looking only at total_vm. The point
of the patch is only to be _balanced_ between passes even if in the system
there are some processes with a total_vm of 1Giga and some processes that
has a total_vm of 1kbyte. In normal conditions the patch _should_ make no
differences... This in my theory at least ;)