> I am encouraged by Craig's test results, which show that
> rmap did a LOT less swapin IO and rmap with page aging even
> less. The fact that it did too much swapout IO means one
> part of the system needs tuning but doesn't say much about
> the thing as a whole.
btw., isnt there a fair chance that by 'fixing' the aging+rmap code to
swap out less, you'll ultimately swap in more? [because the extra swappout
likely ended up freeing up RAM as well, which in turn decreases the amount
of trashing.]
Ingo
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