Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue

Alex Bligh - linux-kernel (linux-kernel@alex.org.uk)
Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:23:58 +0100


--On Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:10 PM +0200 Stephan von Krawczynski
<skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:

> Obviously aging did not work at all,
> there was not a single hit on these (CD image) pages during 24 hours,
> compared to lots on the nfs-data.

If there's no memory pressure, data stays in InactiveDirty, caches,
etc., forever. What makes you think more memory would have helped
the NFS performance? It's possible these all were served out of caches
too.

--
Alex Bligh
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