Re: [patch] swap cache read accesses
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 4 May 1999 10:32:02 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
:
> I was running `./bw_mem 120m rd' (from lmbench) and I noticed my swap to
> be eaten completly in some second. All the cache was full of swap cache
> pages.
>
> The problem is that there is no good reason to map in the process a
> read-only swap cache page if the swap cache page was not shared.
Agreed, applied,
Linus
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