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, 20 Aug 2001 12:14:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:13:53 -0400 Received: from panther.noc.ucla.edu ([169.232.10.21]:8179 "EHLO panther.noc.ucla.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:13:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3B813743.5080400@ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:13:55 -0700 From: Benjamin Redelings I User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010813 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.4.8/2.4.9 VM problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Phillips wrote: > Could you please try this patch against 2.4.9 (patch -p0): > > --- ../2.4.9.clean/mm/memory.c Mon Aug 13 19:16:41 2001 > +++ ./mm/memory.c Sun Aug 19 21:35:26 2001 > @@ -1119,6 +1119,7 @@ > */ > return pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte) ? -1 : 1; > } > + SetPageReferenced(page); > } > > /* > Well, I tried this, and.... WOW! Much better [:)] Was it really true, that swapped in pages didn't get marked as referenced before? It almost felt that bad, but that seems kind of crazy - I don't completely understand what this fix is doing... -BenRI P.S. I tried this on my 64Mb PPro and a 128Mb PIII, and both felt like they had a lot more memory - e.g. less swapping and stuff. -- "I will begin again" - U2, 'New Year's Day' Benjamin Redelings I <>< http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~bredelin/