Re: rmap15a swappy?

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

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Sean Neakums wrote:

> I just fitted an extra 512M of RAM to my laptop, and though there is
> currently about 400M free, it is still hitting swap.  I seem to recall
> that older rmaps generally only started to page stuff out when there
> was no more memory free.  (My recollection may be faulty, though.)

Indeed, the older rmaps swapped later.  However, swapping
a little bit earlier turns out to be faster for almost all
workloads.

Having said that, for some reason rmap15a is sometimes
swapping a lot too early. This is something I still have
to fix...

Rik
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