Re: load control demotion/promotion policy

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:33:34 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> I've got an idea for a load control / memory scheduling
>> policy that is inspired by the following requirements
>> and data points:

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:55:42AM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote:
> It is my understanding that wli is interested in load control because
> he knows this Russian guy who puts an insane load on his box. Do you
> have friends in Russia as well? Isn't there _anybody_ interested in
> the fact that 2.6 performance completely breaks down under a light
> overload where 2.4 doesn't and where load control would be more of a
> problem than a solution? Heck, I even showed that you don't have to give
> up physical scanning to get most of the pageout performance back! Oh,
> and btw: Did I overlook this problem on akpm's should/must fix lists,
> or is it missing for a reason?

I have posted to this thread several times and I've not gotten the
replies back from the mailing list, but I have received several
subsequent replies. What's going on here?


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