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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: conman@kolivas.net
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paolo Ciarrocchi <ciarrocchi@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:26:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E0D43F8.90A9E683@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200212281716.50535.conman@kolivas.net

Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
> ...
> Is there something about the filesystem layer or elsewhere in the kernel that
> could decay or fragment over time that only a reboot can fix? This would seem
> to be a bad thing.

Not much that I can think of.  Apart from a damn great memory leak
somewhere.

Suggest you perform a few runs, keeping an eye on the vm statistics
after each run.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-28  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-27  5:46 [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest Con Kolivas
2002-12-27 10:00 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-28  6:16   ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-28  6:26     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-28  8:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-31  5:58     ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-31  6:08       ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-31  6:24         ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-31  6:37           ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-31  6:57             ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-31  7:08               ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-31  7:20                 ` Con Kolivas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-27 13:13 Paolo Ciarrocchi

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