Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:12:06 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo |
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:00:30AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > Note that the inactive clean pages count (more or less) > > > as free pages, too. > > > > But I should count it as "Inactive" right? > > Yeah.
OK.
> > What can happen to Inact_clean pages besides being freed, and used on > > the free memory list? > > The data that's still in the page could be referenced again, in which > case the page gets moved to the inactive dirty list and from there on > to the active list. > > In effect, the inactive clean list is a "soft free" list, which means > we can keep a larger number of pages almost-free, without wasting > memory. >
So it doesn't have to be dirty to go in the dirty list, only referenced? What about Inact_laundry? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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