Re: nice vmm test case

[Roman Zippel <roman@augan.com>]

Hi,

John Fremlin wrote:

> Perhaps, but I think the cause of the problem might well the priority
> argument to the swap_out function. For me, it is always set to around
> 62, so that the swap out loop is executed a ridiculous number of
> times, i.e. until all memory that can be is swapped out (which seems
> to be the behaviour described).

Hmm, for me it looks like that even in a single loop too much is done. A
single loop already tries to put as much as possible into the swap
cache. Two calls of swap_out_mm for the same mm in very short time and
most of the process is on swap and it will only be busy to get it pages
back.

bye, Roman
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