Re: 2.1.110 freepages.min change

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:00:28 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
>
> That's not been my experience here. I added a printk to monitor the
> shrink call, and I see repeated calls at priority 6 draining the dcache
> while doing a kernel compile. This is on a 32M machine under no
> particular memory stress -- it can easily handle two simultaneous
> compiles with only light swapping.

But does it make any difference performance-wise for you?

If it flushes the name cache a few times during a kernel compile I
wouldn't be worried - I'm a lot more worried about not flushing it enough,
as was clearly the case on small-memory machines.

Linus

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