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Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8

To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:37:26 +0200
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009151915040.7748-100000@tux.rsn.hk-r.se>; from gandalf@wlug.westbo.se on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:28:43PM +0200
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Martin Josefsson wrote:
> I've been trying to get my machine to swap but that seems hard with this
> new patch :) I have 0kB of swap used after 8h uptime, and I have been
> compiling, moving files between partitions and running md5sum on files
> (that was a big problem before, everything ended up on the active list and
> the swapping started and brought my machine down to a crawl)

No preemptive page-outs?

0kB swap means if you suddenly need a lot of memory, inactive
application pages have to be written to disk first.  There are always
inactive application pages.

Maybe the stats are inaccurate.

-- Jamie
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