>Out of interest, Andrea, do you observe a slowdown _without_ the
>swap_free changes we discussed? I'd certainly expect to see a
I never run the untouched stock kernel just because I don' t like to have
garbage in _my_ swap cache ;-).
>slightly higher swap usage without that change, but I'm not sure what
>the performance impact of that would be. On a machine with a
>reasonable amount of memory I'd not expect it to be noticeable under
>normal running conditions.
I posted the patch to allow people with lots of different hardware to make
comparison. I have not the time to produce numbers now (due fucked exames
at University that force me to be not productive and to waste time argg).
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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