Re: Linux-2.1.129..

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:33:59 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
>
> Yes on a 512MB system it's a great win ... on a 64 system I see
> something like a ``swapping weasel'' under high load.

The reason the page aging was removed was that I had people who did
studies and told me that the page aging hurts on low-memory machines.

On something like the machine I have, page aging makes absolutely
no difference whatsoever, either positive or negative.

Stephen, you're the one who did the studies. Comments?

Linus

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