Re: Linux-2.1.129..

Linus Torvalds
1998-11-19T22:34:31Z

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
>
> Yes on a 512MB system it's a great win ... on a 64 system I see
> something like a ``swapping weasel'' under high load.

The reason the page aging was removed was that I had people who did
studies and told me that the page aging hurts on low-memory machines.

On something like the machine I have, page aging makes absolutely
no difference whatsoever, either positive or negative.

Stephen, you're the one who did the studies. Comments?

Linus