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

Rik van Riel
1999-01-13T00:18:52Z

On 12 Jan 1999, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> After number of async pages gets bigger than
> pager_daemon.swap_cluster (= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX), swapin readahead
> becomes synchronous, and that hurts performance. It is better to
> skip readahead in such situations, and that is also more fair to
> swapout. Andrea came to exactly the same conclusion, independent
> of me (on the same day :)).

IIRC this facility was in the original swapin readahead
implementation. That only leaves the question who removed
it and why :))

cheers,

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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