From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: alan@cotse.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vs@namesys.com
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:32:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD021D3.B7F1C511@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YWxhbg==.563e560fc9743df6e2cd56ac2568e2c0@1037049066.cotse.net
Alan Willis wrote:
>
> > That's an awful lot of mapped memory. Have you been altering
> > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? Has some application run berzerk
> > and used tons of memory?
> >
> > Slab: 7592 kB
> > Committed_AS: 423120 kB
> > PageTables: 1996 kB
> > ReverseMaps: 69425
> > HugePages_Total: 15
> > HugePages_Free: 15
> > Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
>
> vm.swappiness was set to 0
OK ;)
That sucker really works. I run my desktop machines (768M and 256M)
at swappiness=80% or 90%. I end up with 10-20 megs in swap after a
day or two, which seems about right. The default of 60 is probably a
little too unswappy.
> I'll stick to 2.5.46 for a while yet I guess, to be sure.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-11 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-08 0:32 [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest Alan Willis
2002-11-08 0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-08 21:08 ` Alan Willis
2002-11-08 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <YWxhbg==.a11f3fbc6d68c50c7f190513c1d3bacf@1037045821.cotse.net>
2002-11-11 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11 21:11 ` Alan Willis
2002-11-11 21:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-13 0:14 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-11-12 20:07 ` Alan Willis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-07 22:53 Con Kolivas
2002-11-07 23:48 ` Robert Love
2002-11-07 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-08 0:04 ` Robert Love
2002-11-08 6:04 ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-08 0:10 ` Benjamin LaHaise
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