Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:37:51 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: VM20 behavior on a 486DX/66Mhz with 16mb of RAM |
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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Nimrod Zimerman wrote: > > > Personally, I don't like the way the pager works. It is too magical. Change > > 'priority', and it might work better. Why? Because. I much preferred the old > > approach, of being able to simply tell the cache (and buffers, though I > > don't see this unless I explicitly try to enlarge it) to *never*, *ever* grow > > over some arbitrary limit. This is far better for smaller machines, at > > least as far as I can currently see. > > Setting an high limit for the cache when we are low memory is easy doable. > Comments from other mm guys?
Please try out arca-vm-22. You can set the percentage of the cache (buffer+filecache+swapcache) that your system will get close when you'll be low on memory. The cache percentage is tunable via the second number in the sysctl `.../sys/vm/pager`.
ftp://e-mind.com/pub/linux/kernel-patches/2.2.0-pre7-arca-VM-22
Let me know if it's what you like.
Andrea Arcangeli
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