From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 17:32:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010520173252.Q754@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105191840250.5531-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105200509130.488-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105200509130.488-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>; from mikeg@wen-online.de on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> I'm not sure why that helps. I didn't put it in as a trick or
> anything though. I put it in because it didn't seem like a
> good idea to ever have more cleaned pages than free pages at a
> time when we're yammering for help.. so I did that and it helped.
The rationale for this is easy: free pages is wasted memory,
clean pages is hot, clean cache. The best state a cache can be in.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
--
To the systems programmer,
users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-20 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-17 16:45 Linux 2.4.4-ac10 Alan Cox
2001-05-17 17:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-05-17 17:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-17 17:16 ` Chris Evans
2001-05-17 17:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-17 17:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-17 21:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 3:55 ` Sasi Peter
2001-05-18 4:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 6:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-18 17:08 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 17:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-18 18:19 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-18 18:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 18:58 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-18 20:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 20:24 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-18 20:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-18 22:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 22:58 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-19 2:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-19 2:32 ` Mike Castle
2001-05-19 6:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-19 4:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-19 17:13 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Mike Galbraith
2001-05-19 21:41 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-20 3:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 6:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-20 8:08 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 8:49 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-20 9:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 10:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-21 13:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-20 21:54 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-21 20:32 ` David Weinehall
2001-05-23 15:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 8:39 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-23 17:24 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-23 17:51 ` Scott Anderson
2001-05-25 8:10 ` David Weinehall
2001-05-25 18:39 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-04 19:22 ` RPM Installation - Compilation errors jalaja devi
2001-05-24 8:48 ` [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 Mike Galbraith
2001-05-24 9:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-24 10:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-24 11:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-24 14:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 15:32 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2001-05-20 17:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 13:44 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-05-20 17:58 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 19:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-20 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-21 3:44 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 21:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-21 3:54 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-17 17:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-05-17 18:33 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-05-17 18:40 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-05-17 18:51 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-05-17 19:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-17 18:46 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-17 19:00 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-05-17 19:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-17 19:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-17 20:52 ` Linux 2.4.4-ac10: Oops FAVRE Gregoire
2001-05-17 21:41 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18 11:28 ` FAVRE Gregoire
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-20 0:52 [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 Dieter Nützel
[not found] <200105200225107.SM01044@paloma16.e0k.nbg-hannover.de>
2001-05-20 3:40 ` Mike Galbraith
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