From: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:40:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010622184040.A765@zero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010621222557.A553@zero> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106220722450.535-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106220722450.535-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>; from mikeg@wen-online.de on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating
> swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One
if it's pre-allocation, why does it show up as "used"? "reserved" would be a
better fit.
> benefit of this early allocation is that idle pages will be identified
> prior to demand, and will be moved out of the way sooner. Watch as
how long can swap allocation possibly take? certainly no where near as long
as a write to disk takes. my box has a half gig of ram, pre-allocation is a
waste of cpu. i never hit swap.
> memory demand rises, and you should see these pages migrating to disk
> and staying there.. buys you more working space.
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Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-22 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-21 16:38 Linux 2.4.5-ac17 Alan Cox
2001-06-21 17:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-21 17:47 ` Craig Schlenter
2001-06-21 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-21 20:08 ` Gary White (Network Administrator)
2001-06-21 19:51 ` Tom Vier
2001-06-21 21:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 2:25 ` Tom Vier
2001-06-22 7:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-22 22:40 ` Tom Vier [this message]
2001-06-22 22:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-23 3:46 ` Mike Galbraith
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