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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:23:50 +0200
From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Rik van Riel wrote:

> One problem we're running into here is that there are absolutely
> no tools to measure some of the things rmap is supposed to fix,
> like page replacement.
> 
There are things like running vmstat while running tests or production.

My office desktop machine (256M RAM) rarely swaps more than 10M
during work with 2.5.30.  It used to go some 70M into swap
after a few days of writing, browsing, and those updatedb runs.  

Helge Hafting
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