Re: [PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6-3+ VM rebalancing

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 10:09:55 EST

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Simon Kirby wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 11:08:35PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > the following patch makes VM in 2.3.99-pre6+ behave more nice
> > than in previous versions. It does that by:

[snip]

> 0 2 0 17204 2728 3544 60088 0 40 452 10 434 1788 1 5 94
> 1 1 0 17236 2932 3588 59752 0 32 253 8 333 1591 12 38 50
>
> It seems a bit odd that it is swapping out here when there is a
> lot of cache memory available.

If you look closer, you'll see that none of the swapped out
stuff is swapped back in again. This shows that the VM
subsystem did make the right choice here...

regards,

Rik 

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