> > You're right. It should never dump too much data at once. OTOH, if
> > those cleaned pages are really old (front of reclaim list), there's no
> > value in keeping them either. Maybe there should be a slow bleed for
> > mostly idle or lightly loaded conditions.
>
> If you don't think it's worthwhile keeping the oldest pages
> in memory around, please hand me your excess DIMMS ;)
Sorry, Rik, you can't have that that DIMM. You know, you are
developing memory managment, and we can't have you having too much
memory available ;-).
Pavel
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