From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: wung_y@263.net
Cc: mail list linux-mm mail list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Paging out sleepy processes?
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:09:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <380ECA51.E1210AFD@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 380EA6C1.DA32BC3A@263.net
Wang Yong wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > How possible/reasonable would it be to add a feature which will swap out
> > processes that have been asleep for a long time?
> why do u want to force it out
Processes will not get swapped out until memory pressure occurs. Thus,
idle processes waste physical memory until this situation occurs.
Physical memory is always a valuable commodity, and should IMHO be
reclaimed whenever possible.
It makes even more sense to page out idle _pages_ instead of processes,
but I don't know if it is even possible to determine how long a page has
been idle, in terms of clock time.
Jeff
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1999-10-20 8:24 Paging out sleepy processes? Jeff Garzik
1999-10-21 5:38 ` Wang Yong
1999-10-21 8:09 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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