Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:07:13 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> Yes. Imagine the paging in of big binary case. The page faults will occur
> all over the place, not in a nice sequential order. The page-in clusters
> stuff _doubled_ performance of paging in certain big static binaries.

I think that if it helped it means that the swap cache got shrunk too much
early due a not good free paging algorithm.

Andrea Arcangeli

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