From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from snowcrash.cymru.net (snowcrash.cymru.net [163.164.160.3]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA09136 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:26:48 -0500 Message-Id: From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:20:59 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <199901211650.QAA04674@dax.scot.redhat.com> from "Stephen C. Tweedie" at Jan 21, 99 04:50:36 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: werner@suse.de, andrea@e-mind.com, riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl, Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr, torvalds@transmeta.com, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, saw@msu.ru, steve@netplus.net, damonbrent@earthlink.net, reese@isn.net, kalle.andersson@mbox303.swipnet.se, bmccann@indusriver.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > Page aging dramatically increases the amount of CPU time we spend > looking for free pages. The selection of which pages to swap out really Thats a bug in our current vm structures, like the others - inability to throw out page tables, inability to find memory easily, inability to move blocks to allocate large areas in a target space, inability to handle large user spaces etc. At least 2.3 will have plenty of fun things to do 8) Alan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/