On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

	/*
	 * Too many active pages? That implies that we don't have enough
	 * of a working set for page_launder() to do a good job. Start by
	 * walking the VM space..
	 */
	if ((nr_active_pages >> 1) > total_pages)
		swap_out();

	/*
	 * This is where we actually free memory
	 */
	page_launder(..);

Ahhh, but this is NOT the balancing problem we're trying to
pin down in 2.4...

The (possible) problem is in the balancing between swap_out()
and refill_inactive_scan().

regards,

Rik
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