Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:24:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:24:05 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:21318 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:23:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 01:24:07 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Patrick McFarland Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VM Message-ID: <20011017012407.Q2380@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20011015211216.A1314@localhost> <9qg46l$378$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20011015230836.B1314@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20011015230836.B1314@localhost>; from unknown@panax.com on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:08:38PM -0400 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:08:38PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: > reading what lang wrote, ive been thinking > > Im on the type of machine that swapping the least is most favorable. > rik's vm seems that it would be able to swap less, and not swap the > wrong things enough of the time. andrea's, if i try to do something > major, it swaps like crazy, but I havent tested rik's because I dont strance if something it should swap less. It may look less responsive under swap but that's mostly because we swap less and we drop more cache instead. Infact if you test 2.4.13pre3aa1 it should swap more and also be more responsive under swap. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/