Re: swapping and cache usage

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:50:08 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Because the VM recycle algorithm it's not well tuned for high intensive
>> I/O application. Apply these two my fixes and the problem will disappear:
>
>I tried these patches on a heavily loaded 16Mb box. After I got bored of
>it trying to saw through my disk I rebooted back to the old ones. On a 64Mb

Are you sure you applyed at the same time the trashing_mem patch?

Andrea

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