From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:18:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:18:33 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:61456 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:18:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3D577EA6.204E670D@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:23:50 +0200 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [no] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.30 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > One problem we're running into here is that there are absolutely > no tools to measure some of the things rmap is supposed to fix, > like page replacement. > There are things like running vmstat while running tests or production. My office desktop machine (256M RAM) rarely swaps more than 10M during work with 2.5.30. It used to go some 70M into swap after a few days of writing, browsing, and those updatedb runs. Helge Hafting