Re: MM patches (was Re: why swap at all?)

[Nick Piggin]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>
> > (pages with program/library code, data of e.g. your Mozilla, etc),
> > please submit a report to lkml. VM gurus said more than once
> > that they _want_ to fix things, but need to know how to reproduce.
>
>
> Yep.
>
> Thanks to everyone's input I was able to test and adapt my mm work.
> It is hopefully at a stage where it can have wider testing now. It
> is stable on my SMP system under very heavy swapping, but the usual
> caution applies.
>
> Test is 4 x cat 8GB > /dev/null (aggregate 100-200MB/s!) while in X,
> with xterms and mozilla open browsing and grepping kernel tree, etc.

This isn't the "very heavy swapping" load, BTW :)

The very heavy swapping load is make -j15 in 64MB of memory.
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