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Re: [uPATCH] small kswapd improvement ???



Hi,

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:05:18 +0100 (MET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl> said:

> Hi,
> I remember the 1.1 or 1.2 days when Stephen reworked the
> swap code and I played around with a small piece of
> vmscan.c. Back then a simple bug was encountered and 'fixed'
> by always starting the memory scan at adress 0, which gives
> a highly unfair and inefficient aging process.

Ouch --- I wonder how much this is hurting 2.0.33.  I think I'll have
to try that, and perhaps look at this for 2.0.34/LMP... 

Thanks,
 Stephen.