Re: More info: 2.1.108 page cache performance on low memory

Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-07-23T15:17:54Z

On 23 Jul 1998, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> I was very carefull to do exactly the same sequence in both tests!
> I think it is obvious from the first line of those vmstat reports.
>
> Anything I forgot to test? :)

Yeap! ;-) Could you try Werner Fink's lowmem.patch -- it changes the
MAX_PAGE_AGE mechanism to have a dynamic upper limit which is lower on
systems with less memory... That should have a similar effect to the
multiple invocations of age_page that you tried.

-ben