Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

[Martin Knoblauch]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, M. Edward Borasky wrote:
> 
> > Yes!! I second that motion!! On top of that, we need buffer/page cache
> > hit rate statistics!!
>

 Yes, I forgot to mention them. And we need them not only to do the
production planning, but also for developing the VM[-strategies]. Most
time these days we just say things like "it sucks", or "no, it does not"
:-) Even worse if it comes to interactive "feeling".
 
> > If Linux is to succeed in enterprise-level usage, we *must* have tools
> > to measure, manage and tune performance -- in short, to do capacity
> > planning like we do on any other system.
> 
> Indeed, VM statistics added back to the TODO list for
> my VM ;)
>

 Very good to hear.
 
Happy new year
Martin
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