Re: [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature?

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>]

According to Stephen C. Tweedie:
> On reflection, there is a completely natural way of distinguishing
> between these two cases, and that is to extend the size of the
> shrink_mmap() pass whenever we encounter many recently touched pages.

This patch has _vastly_ improved my subjective impression of the VM
behavior of 130-pre3.  My computer is a laptop with 32M and a fairly
slow (non-DMA) hard drive; after this patch, things that used to be
quite slow -- especially Navigator -- seem much more snappy.

Thanks!
-- 
Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."
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