Re: 2.4.8/2.4.9 VM problems

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 23:08:43 EST


On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On August 21, 2001 05:58 am, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > This is hypothetical thrashing so far, have you see it in the wild?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Could you supply details please?

No hard measurements since the kernel doesn't export the
statistics for all of this yet, but I've seen the behaviour
and after thinking for a few seconds I came up with the
maths I gave you before to explain the situation.

Now it's your turn to come up with the maths to back up
your assumptions.

Rik

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