>>>>> "andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
andrea> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> This is why LRU is wrong and we need page aging (which
>> approximates both LRU and NFU).
>>
>> The idea is to remove those pages from memory which will
>> not be used again for the longest time, regardless of in
>> which 'state' they live in main memory.
>>
>> (and proper page aging is a good approximation to this)
andrea> It will still drop _all_ VM mappings from memory if you left "cp /dev/zero
andrea> ." in background for say 2 hours. This in turn mean that during streming
andrea> I/O you'll have _much_ more than the current swapin/swapout troubles.
If you are copying in the background a cp and you don't touch your
vi/emacs/whatever pages in 2 hours (i.e. age = 0) then I think that it
is ok for that pages to be swaped out. Notice that the cage pages
will have _initial age_ and the pages of the binaries will have an
_older_ age.
Later, Juan.
-- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Jul 15 2000 - 21:00:13 EST