From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA32575 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:36:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:35:43 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: arca-vm-8 [Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm , improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: steve@netplus.net, brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Zlatko Calusic , Ben McCann , bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > This first patch allow swap_out to have a more fine grined weight. Should > > help at least in low memory envinronments. > > The basic reason I didn't want to do this was that I thought it was wrong > to try to base _any_ decision on any virtual memory sizes. The reason is > simply that I think RSS isn't a very interesting thing to look at. But now I am not looking at RSS, I am looking only at total_vm. The point of the patch is only to be _balanced_ between passes even if in the system there are some processes with a total_vm of 1Giga and some processes that has a total_vm of 1kbyte. In normal conditions the patch _should_ make no differences... This in my theory at least ;) -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org