From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263957AbTJ1Mko (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:40:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263968AbTJ1Mkn (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:40:43 -0500 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:59869 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263957AbTJ1Mkm (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:40:42 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:40:37 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton References: <200310232337.50538.kernel@kolivas.org> <200310251658.23070.kernel@kolivas.org> <20031028110443.GA1792@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20031028110443.GA1792@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310282340.38029.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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