On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:26:17PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

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It doesn't --- that is part of the design.  The vm scanner propagates

And that's the inferior part of the design IMHO.

Indeed, but physical page based aging is a definate
2.5 thing ... ;(

I'm talking about the fact that if you have a file mmapped in
1.5G of RAM test9 will waste time rolling between LRUs 384000
pages, while classzone won't ever see 1 of those pages until you
run low on fs cache.

IMHO this is a minor issue because:
1) you need to do page replacement with shared pages
   right
2) you don't /want/ to run low on fs cache, you want
   to have a good balance between thee cache(s) and
   the processes

OTOH, if you have a way to keep fair page aging and
fix the CPU time issue at the same time, I'd love
to see it.

regards,

Rik
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