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Message-ID: <ab418ea90906080514k6f46d3fay6a5fe0b848c8ca50@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:14:53 +0800
From:	Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	gnome-list@...me.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Elladan <elladan@...imo.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"minchan.kim@...il.com" <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	"xorg@...ts.freedesktop.org" <xorg@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class 
	citizen

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:56:07PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:47:31PM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > > > One scenario that might be useful to test is what happens when some
>> > > > very large processes, all mapped and executable exceed memory and
>> > >
>> > > Good idea. Too bad I may have to install some bloated desktop in order
>> > > to test this out ;) I guess the pgmajfault+pswpin numbers can serve as
>> > > negative scores in that case?
>> >
>> > I would just generate a large C program with a script and compile
>> > and run that. The program can be very dumb (e.g. only run
>> > a gigantic loop), it just needs to be large.
>> >
>> > Just don't compile it with optimization, that can be quite slow.
>> >
>> > And use multiple functions, otherwise gcc might exceed your memory.
>>
>>
>> Hehe, an arbitrary C program may not be persuasive..but I do have some
>> bloated binaries at hand :-)
>>
>> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root wfg   36M 2009-04-22 17:21 Xorg
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 wfg  wfg     4 2009-04-22 17:21 X -> Xorg
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 wfg  wfg   39M 2009-04-22 17:21 Xvfb
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 wfg  wfg   35M 2009-04-22 17:21 Xnest
>
> I would like to create a lot of windows in gnome, and to switch
> between them. Any ideas on scripting/automating the "switch window"
> actions?

You can easily do this in KDE 3.5 with dcop(Desktop Communications Protocol)\

e.g.

$dcop kchmviewer-17502 KCHMMainWindow raise

will raise the window of my kchmviewer.

>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
>
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