From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 17:07:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F62F40A for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 17:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-x22d.google.com (mail-ee0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c00::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9D02683 for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 17:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f45.google.com with SMTP id d49so3482407eek.4 for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 10:07:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Tvc1NvJBoxfd6hXnh1qIhMRYNTpk76278zOseY/balk=; b=c0ru7SjtJ5TimCtgRu108VDcD3EYl940liFH3BKhbcC0Kzg8DnSFK4N55MEAytU/dx SrfYAd+6KxITmFEzfVG+/8PoItlHOtgtgdcxWGxdwFLPWiOAYmDffYUL+Rkk53wBZG9L y7XE8dOvO2H0qrayJSAFKafJkpifE0OJf9c31BFF8VbtS2YvxFx70ROXLm9TZSCJ4ZHG YoVkQTsBGmnvVbnj7mf9pRcQO1gqlvUhY77yQgYztlqUNeDk2jceEhlPEmy4Ok43CCRJ +grboE7I1qWW3mwLGmylJNmmSt5a7WsiQ90CDR3QBkv3Klp83H7ZwWvup8rEmXCXAsM2 BWNA== X-Received: by 10.15.49.8 with SMTP id i8mr18532191eew.33.1399741657130; Sat, 10 May 2014 10:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ubm.strangled.net (188-195-103-177-dynip.superkabel.de. [188.195.103.177]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i4sm17740409eeg.28.2014.05.10.10.07.35 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 10 May 2014 10:07:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: Marc "UBM" Bocklet Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 19:07:34 +0200 From: Marc UBM 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 17:07:39 -0000 On Tue, 06 May 2014 18:59:59 -0500 Alan Cox 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