From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:00:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:00:04 -0400 Received: from mail.muc.eurocyber.net ([195.143.108.5]:40386 "EHLO mail.muc.eurocyber.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 02:59:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3AD5DC.EE9A2B82@TeraPort.de> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:59:40 +0200 From: Martin Knoblauch Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac19 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > I do not care much whether the cache is using 99% of the systems memory > > or 50%. As long as there is free memory, using it for cache is great. I > > care a lot if the cache takes down interactivity, because it pushes out > > processes that it thinks idle, but that I need in 5 seconds. The caches > > pressure against processes > > Too bad that processes are in general cached INSIDE the cache. > > You'll have to write a new balancing story now ;) > maybe that is part of "the answer" :-) Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759