On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > I'm not sure why that helps. I didn't put it in as a trick or > anything though. I put it in because it didn't seem like a > good idea to ever have more cleaned pages than free pages at a > time when we're yammering for help.. so I did that and it helped. The rationale for this is easy: free pages is wasted memory, clean pages is hot, clean cache. The best state a cache can be in. Regards Ingo Oeser -- To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load. - 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/
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