From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:41:08 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove unswappable anonymous pages off the LRU In-Reply-To: <45D4DF28.7070409@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <45D4DF28.7070409@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "Martin J. Bligh" List-ID: On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > Running out of swap is a temporary condition. > You need to have some way for those pages to > make it back onto the LRU list when swap > becomes available. Yup any ideas how? > Better yet, we could implement a better way to > reclaim swap space, or reclaim swap space in a > different part of the code. Certainly an interesting project. > For example, we could try to reclaim the swap > space of every page that we scan on the active > list - when swap space starts getting tight. Good idea. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org