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

Rik van Riel
2004-10-05T13:51:06Z

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Hideo AOKI wrote:

> I am exploring tuning policy.
>
> Any comments or suggestions?

While I believe that a self tuning timeout might be better in
the long run, this tunable will certainly help tune policy.

Besides, even with a self tuning timeout we'll want to have
this tunable visible in /proc so we can debug things by seeing
what value the kernel set the tunable to ;)

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