Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines

Rik van Riel
2003-12-09T16:05:29Z

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Roger Luethi wrote:

> The classic strategies based on these criteria work for transaction and
> batch systems. They are all but useless, though, for a workstation and
> even most modern servers, due to assumptions that are incorrect today
> (remember all the degrees of freedom a scheduler had 30 years ago)
> and additional factors that only became crucial in the past few decades
> (latency again).

Don't forget that computers have gotten a lot slower
over the years ;)

Swapping out a 64kB process to a disk that does 180kB/s
is a lot faster than swapping out a 100MB process to a
disk that does 50MB/s ...

Once you figure in seek times, the picture looks even
worse.

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