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Re: [News] Linux Developers Discuss the Really Fair Scheduler

Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, [H]omer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>> 
>>> I would certainly like one that keeps the system responsive while
>>>  trying to swap out a Gb of RAM (64-bit machine).
>>> 
>>> (To be fair, maybe I picked the wrong algorithm in my kernel
>>> config.)
>> I'm on the same specs (x86_64 + 1GB)
>> 
>> CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq"
>> 
>> WorksForMe®
> 
> I have the same setting.  Can you try it with VMware, when top shows
> you have very little RAM left?

This is a Gobuntu VMWare image, cfq scheduler:

Mem: 515852k total, 68540k used, 447312k free, 5044k buffers

What's eating all your ram?

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