On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:00 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Also Peter has made the tracking configurable. So there is a way > to switch it off if it is harmful for some situations. Oh? > You mean anonymous pages? Anonymous pages are always dirty unless > you consider swap and we currently do not take account of dirty anonymous > pages. With swap we already have performance problems and maybe there are > additional issues to fix in that area. But these are secondary. I intent to make swap over NFS work next. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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