From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>
Cc: kernel@kolivas.org, Joel.Becker@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:09:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040726180943.4c871e4f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4105A761.9090905@tequila.co.jp>
Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> | Andrew Morton writes:
>
> |> Yes, I think 60% is about right for a 512-768M box. Too high for the
> |> smaller machines, too low for the larger ones.
> |
> |
> | Sigh..
> | I have a 1Gb desktop machine that refuses to keep my applications in ram
> | overnight if I have a swappiness higher than the default so I think lots
> | of desktop users with more ram will be unhappy with higher settings.
>
> I have 1 GB and I had a setting of 51 (seemed to be perhaps gentoo
> default or so) and I especially after a weekend (2 days off) it is
> always the "monday-morning-swap-hell" where I have to wait 5min until he
> swapped in the apps he swapped out during weekend.
>
> I changed that to 20 now, but I don't know if this will make things
> worse or better.
>
It may appear to be better, but you now have 100, maybe 200 megabytes less
pagecache available across the entire working day.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-27 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-26 0:25 [PATCH][2.6.8-rc1-mm1] Autotune swappiness01 Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 0:43 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 1:01 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 1:09 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 8:52 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 9:31 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 10:34 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 10:29 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 10:54 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 11:03 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 11:13 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 11:17 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 11:47 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 13:53 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 18:45 ` Adam Kropelin
2004-07-26 18:53 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 17:55 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2004-07-26 20:29 ` Joel Becker
2004-07-26 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 22:58 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-27 0:52 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-27 1:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-27 1:17 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-27 2:03 ` Tim Connors
2004-07-27 2:43 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-27 3:02 ` Tim Connors
2004-07-27 3:43 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-27 3:47 ` Joel Becker
2004-07-27 15:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-27 3:41 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
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2004-07-26 14:52 Martin Knoblauch
2004-07-26 21:29 DaMouse
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