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From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: Stephen Satchell <satch@fluent-access.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:55:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B6E5B73.2DAEBBD5@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007801c11c67$87d55980$b6562341@cfl.rr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010803225855.00bc2a60@mail.fluent-access.com>

Stephen Satchell wrote:

> While the idea halts other programs trying to allocate memory, it would
> provide cycles to programs that want to RELEASE memory (such as consuming
> data in network buffers) and thus reduce the kswapd thumb-twiddling time.

Processes that want to use much memory on a heavily swapping machine 
get delayed already - they have to wait for the swapping.  This leaves
the cpu free to do other things, such as running those nice programs
that use little memory or even frees up some.

Helge Hafting

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-06  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-02 18:29 Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 18:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-02 19:10   ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 19:54     ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-02 20:10       ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 20:16         ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 20:28           ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 17:59             ` David Ford
2001-08-03 20:53               ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 21:59                 ` Mike Black
2001-08-03 22:08                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04  1:06                     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 23:58                   ` [PATCH] Disable kswapd through proc (was Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage) Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04  7:21                   ` Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage Stephen Satchell
2001-08-06  8:55                     ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2001-08-06 16:37                     ` Jeremy Linton
2001-08-07  7:51                       ` David Weinehall
2001-08-03 22:47                 ` David Ford
2001-08-02 21:01         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-02 21:11           ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 21:44             ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-02 21:52               ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 21:56                 ` Miles Lane
2001-08-02 22:05                   ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 22:07                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 22:17                   ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 22:27                     ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 22:32                       ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 22:56                       ` BERECZ Szabolcs
2001-08-03 13:07                       ` jlnance
2001-08-03 13:31                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-06 13:22                         ` Luigi Genoni
2001-08-06 13:29                           ` David S. Miller
2001-08-02 23:46                     ` Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage pagemap_lru_lock Jeremy Linton
2001-08-02 22:15                 ` Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage Pavel Zaitsev
2001-08-02 22:20                 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-03 12:04 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-08-03 16:03   ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 16:24     ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-08-03 21:24       ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 22:00         ` Anders Peter Fugmann

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