Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

José Luis Domingo López
2002-01-05T19:47:28Z

On Thursday, 03 January 2002, at 20:14:42 -0600,
M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:

> Here is what I've run thus far. I'll add nfs file copy into the mix also...
> System: SMP 466 Celeron 192M RAM, running KDE, xosview, and other minor apps.
>
I applied your little patch "vmscan.patch.2.4.17.c" to a plain 2.4.17
source tree, recompiled, and tried it. Swap usage is _much_ less than in
original 2.4.17: hardware is a Pentium166 with 64 MB RAM and 75 MB
swap, and my workload includes X 4.1.x, icewm, nightly Mozilla, several
rxvt, gkrellm, some MP3 listening via XMMS, xchat, several links web
browsers and a couple of little daemons runnig.

I have not done scientific measures on swap usage, but with your patch
it seems caches don't grow too much, and swap is usually 10-20 MB lower
than using plain 2.4.17. I have also observed in /proc/meminfo that
"Inactive:" seems to be much lower with your patch.

If someone wants more tests/numbers done/reported, just ask.

Hope this helps.

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José Luis Domingo López
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