Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-25 Thread cort
Right, that was the plan with that code. In fact, I saw some improvement in performance when turning the caches off when in the idle task no matter what we were doing in it. It seems that it kept us out of the cache so we didn't evict the working-set of block processes. } The way

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-21 Thread cort
Darn. I was hoping you had some mechanism for tracking that. Have you seen how quicklists work on Linux? They setup page directories after they've been freed so the whole things don't need to be cleared when allocated. I thought you could do something like that with page clearing instead if yo

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-21 Thread cort
We started losing performance with the idle page clearing so I've disabled it and haven't done much with it in quite a while. The code has fallen into disrepair and some has been removed in the latest versions. I'd suggest looking at the early 2.3.x and 2.2.1[23] series of Linux kernels. That's