From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:40:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310282340.38029.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031028110443.GA1792@elf.ucw.cz>
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
Hello!
> I believe swappiness == 100 was "I want max throughput, I don't care
> about latency going through roof", while swappiness == 0 was "I don't
> want you to swap too much, behave reasonably".
>
> As you don't know if user cares about latency or not, I don't see how
> you can autotune this.
Well I guess you either see merit in what my patch does based on what I said,
or you don't... so I guess you don't. That's fine; I just offered why I felt
this helped in my varied workloads more than a static value did.
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-28 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 13:37 [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness 2.6.0-test8 Con Kolivas
2003-10-23 14:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-10-23 15:03 ` Con Kolivas
2003-10-25 6:58 ` [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup Con Kolivas
2003-10-26 11:22 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-26 10:36 ` Con Kolivas
2003-10-26 11:42 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-28 11:04 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-28 12:40 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-28 13:34 Boszormenyi Zoltan
2003-10-28 14:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-28 15:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-28 15:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-28 16:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-28 16:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-28 17:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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