On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:38:27PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > It also reduces the distance between inactive_shortage and > inactive_plenty, so kswapd should spend much less time rolling > over pages from zones we're not interested in. > > This patch is meant to fix the problems where heavy cache > activity flushes out pages from the working set, while still > allowing the cache to put some pressure on the working set. Rik, It work well when I pressure it under some intensive IO operations under dpkg and made progress when previous VMs basically froze. I did have two running programs that have large working sets which created a lot of contention and some CPU choppiness, but possibly some per process thrash control should allow for both to make progress. ;-) Good work. bill - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
