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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:28:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broken memory management on system with no swap
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304201727070.54473-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200304201924.h3KJOxWo090302@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     note (1): normally act_count protects against thrashing.  It is the
>     active queue's act_count algorithm which gives FreeBSD's such a nice
>     smooth degredation curve when memory loads become extreme by preventing
>     a frequently accessed page from being freed too early, so we don't
>     want to just turn it off.  Maybe we need a test for 'too many active
>     pages', aka when > 80% of available pages are in the active queue
>     to temporarily disable the act_count test.

I guess just raising the bar as to what a page needs, to be considdered
"active" would have that effect.



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