From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Subject: Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:21:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019072150.GA18307@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710190149.31962.rob@landley.net>
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:49:31AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 8:00:49 am Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > So... IMHO, it would be useful to implement something that pages out
> > chunks of memory larger than a single hardware page. This would reduce
> > the size of the memory management tables (*), as well as improve disk
> > throughput if things DO come to paging....
>
> I believe that was more or less the topic of this paper:
> http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-73-78.pdf
Not really. They are talking about doing this for the page
cache. That's where filesystem files are cached in memory. I'm talking
about the memory that programs use while they are running.
Roger.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 1:11 What still uses the block layer? Rob Landley
2007-10-13 22:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-14 5:54 ` David Newall
2007-10-14 17:46 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-14 22:35 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-10-14 23:36 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 1:23 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-15 5:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-15 9:26 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 16:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-15 17:10 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 3:06 ` david
2007-10-16 5:56 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 10:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-16 19:54 ` david
2007-10-16 19:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-16 20:18 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 20:34 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-16 20:56 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-16 20:55 ` david
2007-10-16 21:49 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-17 9:48 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-17 17:23 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-17 21:04 ` david
2007-10-15 20:29 ` Wilfried Klaebe
2007-10-14 22:24 ` James Bottomley
2007-10-14 23:45 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 1:45 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-15 8:04 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 9:06 ` Julian Calaby
2007-10-15 10:08 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 17:33 ` Greg KH
2007-10-16 2:54 ` david
2007-10-16 4:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-16 4:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-16 4:15 ` david
2007-10-16 4:21 ` Greg KH
2007-10-16 5:00 ` david
[not found] ` <646765f40710150327i78519a0fvaea7a83d5975b180@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200710151511.29748.rob@landley.net>
2007-10-15 23:49 ` Julian Calaby
2007-10-15 10:32 ` Loïc Grenié
2007-10-15 21:09 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 11:19 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-15 21:34 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-15 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 23:41 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-16 2:12 ` david
2007-10-15 13:21 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-15 13:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 13:35 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-15 17:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-15 14:46 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-10-16 2:51 ` david
2007-10-15 13:37 ` OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?) Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 9:52 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 15:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 6:22 ` David Newall
2007-10-20 9:48 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-15 11:40 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-20 9:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-16 3:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 4:10 ` david
2007-10-16 4:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 6:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 4:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 6:38 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-16 9:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 10:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-16 23:59 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-16 7:34 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-18 13:00 ` Rogier Wolff
2007-10-19 6:49 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-19 7:21 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
2007-10-16 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-17 5:34 ` What still uses the block layer? Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-17 6:07 ` david
2007-10-15 6:00 ` Greg KH
2007-10-15 8:36 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 13:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 14:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-15 18:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-10-15 17:25 ` Greg KH
2007-10-15 18:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-15 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 6:33 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-17 23:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-15 22:54 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-15 13:10 ` James Bottomley
2007-10-15 21:51 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 0:45 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-10-15 6:51 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-15 8:37 ` Luben Tuikov
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