From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Paging out sleepy processes?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 04:24:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <380D7C24.AA10E463@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
I have a simple app that I run locally that allocates and randomly
dirties a lot of memory all at once, with the intention of forcing Linux
to swap out processes.
How possible/reasonable would it be to add a feature which will swap out
processes that have been asleep for a long time?
IMHO this behavior would default to off, but can be enabled by
specifying the age at which the system should attempt to swap out
processes:
# tell kernel to swap out processes which have been asleep
# longer than N seconds
echo 7200 > /proc/sys/vm/min_sleepy_swap
Is there a way to do this already?
Regards,
Jeff
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next reply other threads:[~1999-10-20 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-20 8:24 Jeff Garzik [this message]
1999-10-21 5:38 ` Paging out sleepy processes? Wang Yong
1999-10-21 8:09 ` Jeff Garzik
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