Re: CPU swapping on Linux

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 07:43:12 EST


> > > cacheflushInCycles = cpuHz * cachesizeBytes / bytesPerSecond;
>
> If it was guessing the dram bandwidth was very low, shouldn't it have
> been grossly over-estimating cacheflush_time instead of under?

If you are going to be more accurate here you also need to alter the
numbers for 486/pentium boxes with shared L2 cache. You only want to compute
for L1 on these

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