Re: VM/IO performance sucks in 2.3.99-pre6

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 12:34:09 EST


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Hi, all. I know there's been grumbling about VM/IO/LRU's/page aging
> recently. To give an idea of how bad it is:
>
> It seems the current LRU algorithm is "Least Recently Used pages will
> remain in RAM the longest". I'd call that a BFULRU.

There's this great mailing list called "linux-kernel" that you
may want to read every once in a while ;)

To summarise: we have identified the problem and I'm busy writing
the code to fix it. In fact, I'm writing the code right now...

regards,

Rik

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