Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-13T17:59:54Z

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> Yes. Imagine the paging in of big binary case. The page faults will occur
> all over the place, not in a nice sequential order. The page-in clusters
> stuff _doubled_ performance of paging in certain big static binaries.

I think that if it helped it means that the swap cache got shrunk too much
early due a not good free paging algorithm.

Andrea Arcangeli