Re: What are the VM motivations??

From: Jason McMullan (jmcmullan@linuxcare.com)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 15:29:09 EST


On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:29:09PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Over the last year there has been quite a bit of discussion
> with Stephen Tweedie, Matt Dillon and more people. Parts of
> it can be found on http://linux-mm.org/
>
> The conclusion of most of this discussion is in my FREENIX
> paper, which can be found at http://www.surriel.com/lectures/.

        [Just finished reading your paper, and hit the linux-mm.org site]

        Good overview of the Linux 2.4 VM. Although I do
have some questions...

        * When was the 'FREENIX' paper published? I could find
          no date for it.

        * What workloads would you recommend for testing whether
          a VM is 'well balanced' or not?

        * Would it be reasonable to have different 'default'
          tunings for the kernel's VM based upon memory/swap
          size/bandwidth? Personally, I feel that swap bandwidth
          is an oft overlooked parameter in estimating VM performance.

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