From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:51:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:50:56 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:13641 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:50:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:51:10 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: khromy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.13pre5aa1 Message-ID: <20011022015110.B8408@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20011021144144.A29415@lnuxlab.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20011021144144.A29415@lnuxlab.ath.cx>; from khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:41:44PM -0400 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:41:44PM -0400, khromy wrote: > my normal load(which is gaim, xchat, gkrellm, opera, mozilla, mysql) but the > following made it better. > > echo 6 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_scan_ratio > echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_mapped_ratio > echo 4 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_balance_ratio agreed, pre5aa1 was swapping too much by default, so the above echos are recommended. btw, I did further developement in the weekend and it should be better now by default than pre5aa1 with the above sysctl settings. I'll do more tests on bigger hardware in the next days (I was on the laptop). thanks for the feedback, Andrea