On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 06:07:42PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > Frequently accessed filesystem data is stored in memory to reduce access to > (much) slower backing disks. Under memory pressure, these pages are freed and > when needed again, they have to be read from disks again. When combined working > set of all running application exceeds amount of physical RAM, we get extereme > slowdown as reading a page from disk can take time in order of milliseconds. <snip> Given that there were a lot of comments and changes for this series, can you resend them with your updates so I can then apply them if they are acceptable to everyone? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>