Re: Might refill_inactive_zone () be too aggressive?

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:19:55PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> That's something of a normative question about the heuristics, and I
>> try to steer clear of those, though I'm not entirely sure that's how I
>> would interpret it the tunings for your descriptive parts.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> The more I think about it, the more I think that there is something
> awry.  Once distress reaches 50, swappiness is going to rule the
> ability of the system to keep pages mapped.  If swappiness is then 50
> or more, vmscan is going age and then purge every mapped page.

There's not any a priori reason to believe this is wrong that I know of,
though it looks like things do better for you when slightly rearranged.


On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:19:55PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> In the absence of "hard" numbers, you might still be able to use things
>> like wall clock timings. Another thing that would help is to expose the
>> thing to a variety of workloads/etc. For that, I guess I post to lkml.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> Are you suggesting that I post to LKML to get some ideas about other
> workloads?

Well, yes, but I just did so myself.


-- wli
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