Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems

William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-18T01:06:19Z

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:33:33PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> This doesn't match your first response. Anyway, this one is gets
>> scrapped. I guess if swappiness solves it, then so much the better.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:52:57PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> Huh? Where do you see a discrepency? I don't think I claimed that
> the test program performance changed. The noticeable difference is in
> interactivity once the page cache fills. IMHO, 30 seconds to do a
> file listing on /proc is extreme.

Oh, sorry, it was unclear to me that the test changed anything but
swappiness (i.e. I couldn't tell they included the patch etc.)

-- wli