On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:46:29PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > The attached patch does what I described in the other thread, it > makes the pageout code free swap space when swap is getting full, > by taking away the swap space from pages that get moved onto or > back onto the active list. > In some tests on a system with 2GB RAM and 1GB swap, it kept the > free swap at 500MB for a 2.3GB qsbench, while without the patch > over 950MB of swap was in use all of the time. > This should give kswapd more flexibility in what to swap out. > What do you think? > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I would call this a bugfix, not an optimization. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
