Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:48:28 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | RE: [patch] arca-vm-19 [Re: Results: Zlatko's new vm patch] HM Patch |
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> Tested both but got no better performance.
Steve said me now that arca-vm-19 way of checking the swap cache size is working well (he did a mistake testing it two days ago). So I'll return to it since it was the most stable/autotuning here.
> That's the cause, why i made a quick hack (not that smart for sure ;*) ) > which free's buffer memory again, limits page cache and avoids all that > swapping (see patch below).
No, it' s not the right thing to do. We may want to free a page in the file cache instead of a buffer for example. Wait a bit. I am reverting to the arca-vm-19 algorithm, then I'll sent you a new patch to try out.
Andrea Arcangeli
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