Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Con Kolivas
2004-09-06T23:34:47Z

Andrew Morton writes:

> Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>>
>> > A scan of the change logs for swappiness related changes shows nothing that
>> > might explain these changes. My question is: "Is this change in behavior
>> > deliberate, or just a side effect of other changes that were made in the vm?"
>> > and "What kind of swappiness behavior might I expect to find in future kernels?".
>>
>> The change was not deliberate but there have been some other people report
>> significant changes in the swappiness behaviour as well (see archives). It
>> has usually been of the increased swapping variety lately. It has been
>> annoying enough to the bleeding edge desktop users for a swag of out-of-tree
>> hacks to start appearing (like mine).
>
> All of which is largely wasted effort. It would be much more useful to get
> down and identify which patch actually caused the behavioural change.

I don't disagree. Is there anyone who has the time and is willing to do the
regression testing? This is a general appeal to the mailing list.

Cheers,
Con