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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Autotune swappiness
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Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>
> Here is another try at providing feedback to tune the vm_swappiness.

I spent some time yesterday trying to demonstrate performance improvements
from those two patches.  Using

	make -j4 vmlinux with mem=64m

and

	qsbench -p 4 -m 96 with mem=256m

and was not able to do so, which is what I expected.

We do need more quantitative testing on this work.