Re: kswapd @ 60-80% CPU during heavy HD i/o.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 12:06:20 EST


On Tue, 2 May 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >That's a very bad idea.
>
> However the lru_cache have definitely to be per-node and not
> global as now in 2.3.99-pre6 and pre7-1 or you won't be able to
> do the smart things I was mentining some day ago in linux-mm
> with NUMA.

How do you want to take care of global page balancing with
this "optimisation"?

If you cannot find a good answer to that, you'd better not
spend too much time implementing any of this...

regards,

Rik

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