Re: [PATCH] swap usage of high memory (fwd)

2001-07-20 Thread Dirk Wetter
Hey Marcelo, thx for your great work! our 4gb system are working way better now. i am running ac5 (without your inactive_plenty() patch on top of that) on allmost all (see below) of our big boxes. also, it looks like the CPU affinity thing bought us also a little something as far as i was told,

Re: [PATCH] swap usage of high memory (fwd)

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Gooch
Linus Torvalds writes: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > Note that the unfair aging (apart from just being a natural > > > requirement of higher allocation pressure) actually has some other > > > advantages too: it ends up being aload balancing thing.

Re: [PATCH] swap usage of high memory (fwd)

2001-07-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Note that the unfair aging (apart from just being a natural requirement of > higher allocation pressure) actually has some other advantages too: it > ends up being aload balancing thing. Sure, it might throw out some things > that get "unfairly" treat

Re: [PATCH] swap usage of high memory (fwd)

2001-07-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > Note that the unfair aging (apart from just being a natural > > requirement of higher allocation pressure) actually has some other > > advantages too: it ends up being aload balancing thing. Sure, it > > might throw out some t

Re: [PATCH] swap usage of high memory (fwd)

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Gooch
Linus Torvalds writes: > Note that the unfair aging (apart from just being a natural > requirement of higher allocation pressure) actually has some other > advantages too: it ends up being aload balancing thing. Sure, it > might throw out some things that get "unfairly" treated, but once we > brin

Re: [PATCH] swap usage of high memory (fwd)

2001-07-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Still able to trigger the problem with the GFP_HIGHUSER patch applied. > > Hrrm, maybe the fact that the free target in the DMA zone is > four times higher than in the other zones has something to do >