> What's the use of an inactive_clean list anyway, or the effective
> difference between its members and the members of memfree (I suspect
> such a list from the output of /proc/meminfo)?
Pages on the inactive_clean list contain data. Throwing
away data when you can keep it in memory isn't the smartest
thing.
> Besides the fact, that the splitting in two lists prevents proper
> defragmentation
Patches to fix this thing while still allowing us to keep
the data in memory for most pages are appreciated. Patches
to the universe to give me more than 24 hours a day, too ;)
cheers,
Rik
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