From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: FabF <fabian.frederick@skynet.be>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
nigelenki@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:24:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EE8075.6060700@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1089371646.3322.38.camel@localhost.localdomain>
FabF wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:43, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>pdflush is used to perform writeout of dirty data, so it has
>>no part in reducing Mozilla's RSS.
>
> Oops ... kswapd then ?
>
Yep.
>
>>I don't really understand what you are asking though. Your basic
>>problem is that mozilla's resident memory gets evicted too easily,
>>is that right?
>>
>
> Not at all.My problem is mozilla has some MB to recover when
> reactivating; meanwhile, I consider there was sufficient resource to
> share with it _before_ reactivation as I'm waiting some minutes after an
> heavy process (e.g updatedb) to be done and over.
>
You could try my -np7 patch, which would hopefully fix the problem
for you.
It may take some time and work before (if ever) the memory management
patches in it are merged though.
> AFAICS, Con's patches are about auto-regulation, not about anticipation
> (?)
>
Yep. Con's patch changes the conditions that are required to start
reclaiming mapped pages. Basically: when to start swapping.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-07 15:16 2.6.7-ck5 Con Kolivas
2004-07-07 15:39 ` 2.6.7-ck5 John Richard Moser
2004-07-07 15:47 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Con Kolivas
2004-07-07 15:53 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-07 16:11 ` 2.6.7-ck5 P
2004-07-07 17:10 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-07 16:17 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Redeeman
2004-07-08 4:38 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Andrew Morton
2004-07-08 6:40 ` [PATCH] Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 6:45 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 7:06 ` [PATCH] " Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 7:12 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 7:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 8:03 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 8:12 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 17:06 ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-08 17:14 ` [ck] " Mikhail Ramendik
2004-07-08 17:10 ` [ck] Re: [PATCH] " Mikhail Ramendik
2004-07-09 1:03 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 7:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-08 7:58 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 8:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-08 8:27 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 10:54 ` FabF
2004-07-09 1:05 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-09 9:48 ` FabF
2004-07-09 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 11:14 ` FabF
2004-07-09 11:24 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-07-10 9:44 ` FabF
[not found] ` <40EFC076.9050504@yahoo.com.au>
2004-07-10 10:57 ` rss recovery FabF
2004-07-10 12:03 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-13 13:12 ` FabF
2004-07-08 16:26 ` Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation Timothy Miller
2004-07-08 17:12 ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-08 18:37 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-08 21:40 ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-09 7:44 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-07-08 16:24 ` [PATCH] Autotune swappiness Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 16:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 0:39 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-09 1:19 ` [ck] " Kerin Millar
2004-07-09 14:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-09 14:26 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-08 15:57 ` [ck] Re: 2.6.7-ck5 GSehp
2004-07-07 16:45 ` 2.6.7-ck5 John Richard Moser
2004-07-07 17:10 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-07 22:26 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Wes Janzen
2004-07-07 22:53 ` 2.6.7-ck5 Con Kolivas
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