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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2014 19:07:34 +0200
From:      Marc UBM <ubm.freebsd@googlemail.com>
To:        svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r265418 - head/sys/vm
Message-ID:  <20140510190734.2ce803313362e16d7af7ca86@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5369777F.6010203@rice.edu>
References:  <201405060342.s463g5Fx047447@svn.freebsd.org> <1399379941.22079.263.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <5369777F.6010203@rice.edu>

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On Tue, 06 May 2014 18:59:59 -0500
Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu> wrote:

> > Does this address the observation that several folks have made on
> > current@ that pages are being pushed to swap much more agressively than
> > in the past, even when the system doesn't seem short of memory?
> >
> 
> I hope so.  Please let me know if you see any difference.
> 
> I also suspect that another side-effect of r254304 is that we are
> swapping out idle processes sooner, before memory has become scarce. 
> Has anyone observed this behavior?

This fixes the aggressive swapping I have observed on my machine (used
swap at 50% with 1GB free memory).

Thanks a lot!

Bye
Marc



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