Re: [PATCH] swapout speedup 2.1.91-pre2

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > here's the speedup patch I promised earlier.
> > It:
> > - increases tries when we're tight on memory
> > - clusters swapouts from user programs (to save disk movement)
> > - wraps the above in a nice inline
> > 
> > NOTE: this patch is untested, but otherwise completely trivial :)
> 
> Ok, this looks more like the kind of algorithms I wanted. I alread knew
> that the hardcoded "50" was wrong, your heuristic looks sensible (with the
> modification you already sent to make it slightly less aggressive). 
> 
> Anyway, I'm fairly happy with this kind of setup, I'll make a real 2.1.91
> soonish,

Please, don't make it yet, we need some page cache limitation
algorithm too because my machine (and I suspect other midrange
PCees too) just thrashed itself to death because of this...

Rik.
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