Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

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

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote:

> I am very aware that heavy paging, which is ok _if_ you have the
> bandwidth, and thrashing are different.

So can we conclude that for a simple "thrashing approximation"
we should at least measure if we're loading the disk subsystem
heavily ?

(heavy disk load -> more disk seeks -> self-perpetuating situation)

regards,

Rik
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