Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:13:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:13:26 -0500 Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.146]:7164 "EHLO brutus.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:13:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:12:39 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel To: Alan Cox cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > 2.4.1-ac7 > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > | This should make things feel a lot faster especially > | on small boxes .. feedback to Rik I'd really like feedback from people when it comes to this change. The change /should/ fix most paging performance bugs because it makes kswapd do the right amount of work in order to solve the free memory shortage every time it is run. This, in turn, should make it far less likely that user processes will *ever* need to call try_to_free_pages() themselves, unless the system really goes into overload mode. It would be good to know if this change really fixes the bug or if it only helps for certain workloads and not for others. I'd really like to close the following bug but need confirmation that it works first ;) http://distro.conectiva.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1178 regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/