Re: journaling & VM (was: Re: reiserfs being part of the kernel: it'snot just the code)

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Hans Reiser wrote:

> The new age one 64th of your objects scheme causes pressure to
> be proportional.....

Which is wrong, unless the oldest pages from each zone happen
to be the same age ;)

Suppose a 5MB SHM segment gets deattached and not used for a
long time. In this situation it makes little sense to round-robin
free from the different caches if the other caches are under more
pressure.

> I am looking forward to reading the new 2.4 mm code during my
> next aeroflot experience this sunday....

I'm working on it, but I can't promise to have all of the
active/inactive/scavenge list framework ready by then ;)

regards,

Rik
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