Improved algorithms for desktop Linux operating system memory management
Lin Guo-en · Systems engineering and electronics · 2005
Aimed at slow system response, poor interaction and other problems of current desktop Linux in supporting application programs, the physical memory managing algorithm with active swap mechanism and preloading DLL algorithm based on heuristic study are proposed to shorten the system response time and enhance system interaction capability. The former presents some different opportunities to release physical memory actively so as to prevent physical memory scarcity and avoid system response delay caused by it. The latter selects some DLLs that are invoked comparatively frequently and preloads them to physical memory so as to speed up the process and improve system interaction capabilities. The first one has got a good experiment result and is very efficient to Linux kernel.