From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:21:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:21:09 -0400 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:56580 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:20:29 -0400 Message-ID: <20010520235409.G2647@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 23:54:09 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Rik van Riel , Mike Galbraith Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Rik van Riel on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:49:09AM -0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > You're right. It should never dump too much data at once. OTOH, if > > those cleaned pages are really old (front of reclaim list), there's no > > value in keeping them either. Maybe there should be a slow bleed for > > mostly idle or lightly loaded conditions. > > If you don't think it's worthwhile keeping the oldest pages > in memory around, please hand me your excess DIMMS ;) Sorry, Rik, you can't have that that DIMM. You know, you are developing memory managment, and we can't have you having too much memory available ;-). Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org