Re: [PATCH 2.6] vm-thrashing-control-tuning

Andi Kleen
2004-10-05T14:00:17Z

Hideo AOKI <aoki@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> writes:

> This patch adds "swap_token_timeout" parameter in /proc/sys/vm.
> The parameter means expired time of token. Unit of the value is HZ, and the default value is the same as current SWAP_TOKEN_TIMEOUT
> (i.e. HZ * 300). The patch can be applied to both 2.6.9-rc2 and 2.6.9-rc3.

Please don't export any sysctls as jiffies. The values of jiffies changes.
Use s or ms instead. sysctl has convenience functions for this.

-Andi