Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:08:44 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Wilson <andrew@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk> To: davidg@root.com Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another try at the vm_pageout.c -stable diff Message-ID: <199606261208.NAA00216@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606260337.UAA00265@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jun 25, 96 08:37:52 pm
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> Here is yet another diff. This is the product of a discussion I just had > with John about the nature of some of the performance problems people have > complained about. > This makes a slight change to the policy for bringing pages off of the > active queue and should make the statistics gather *much* more effective > in some cases. Please try it out and get back to us. Thanks! > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > (This includes John's other changes, so apply this to a fresh -stable copy of > vm_pageout.c) [snip] No nasty swapping sounds when booting. xterms etc come up quickly again with no excess of disk activity. After about 5 minutes under openwin xterms refuse to refresh, moving an obscuring window leaves a big unrendered footprint, mouse cursor can still be moved. On exit from openwin the X session hangs everything, rebooted from the switch. > Index: vm_pageout.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c,v > retrieving revision 1.51.4.6 > diff -c -r1.51.4.6 vm_pageout.c Cheers, Ay.
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