> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > The problem is that we allow _every_ task to age pages on the system
> > at the same time --- this is one of the things which is fucking up.
>
> This should not have any effect on the ratio of cache
> reclaiming vs. swapout use, though...
It shouldn't.. but when many tasks are aging, it does. Excluding
these guys certainly seems to make a difference. (could be seeing
something else and interpreting it wrong...)
-Mike
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