From: "Taneli Vähäkangas" <taneli@firmament.fi>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Limit hash table size
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 22:20:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040206202006.GA19473@firmament.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040205190904.0cacd513.akpm@osdl.org>
(Cc: list trimmed)
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:09:04PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A decent approach to the updatedb problem is an application hint which says
> "reclaim i/dcache harder". Just turn it on during the updatedb run -
> crude, but it's a start.
>
> But I've been telling poeple for a year that they should set
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to zero during the updatedb run and afaik nobody has
> bothered to try it...
Ok, I tried it. If anything, it made "interactive feel" slightly worse.
This is 2.6.2-rc3 on 2xPII-233, 128M RAM, 280M swap, Gnome and Mozilla.
If that does not apply, then forget about it. OTOH, I'd very much
appreciate if the system didn't act very sluggish during updatedb.
Taneli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-06 20:20 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20040205155813.726041bd.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-02-06 1:54 ` Limit hash table size Andi Kleen
2004-02-05 2:38 ` Steve Lord
2004-02-06 3:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-05 4:06 ` Steve Lord
2004-02-06 4:39 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06 4:59 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 5:34 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-02-06 3:19 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06 3:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 3:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 3:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-18 12:41 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-06 3:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 3:18 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06 3:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 4:45 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-06 6:22 ` Matt Mackall
2004-02-06 20:20 ` Taneli Vähäkangas [this message]
2004-02-06 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 21:46 ` Taneli Vähäkangas
2004-02-18 0:45 Chen, Kenneth W
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-18 0:16 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-17 22:24 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-17 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 6:32 Manfred Spraul
2004-02-06 0:10 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-06 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-09 23:12 ` Jes Sorensen
2004-01-14 22:31 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-18 14:25 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-14 22:29 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-12 16:50 Manfred Spraul
2004-01-09 19:05 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-12 13:32 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-08 23:12 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-09 9:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 14:25 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-05 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
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