Re: Results: Zlatko's new vm patch

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-12T14:50:48Z

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Note that there are very few people who are testing interactive feel. I'd
> be happier with more people giving more subjective comments on how the
> system feels under heavy memory load.

With my latest free_user_and_cache() (arca-vm >= 16) you can't get bad
iteractive performances. Usually bad iteractive performances are due
unbalaced algorithms in the big try_to_free_pages() path.

Andrea Arcangeli