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

Ray Bryant
2004-09-07T00:27:42Z

Nick Piggin wrote:

>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:22:07PM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote:
>>
>>> On a separate issue, the response to my proposal for a mempolicy to
>>> control
>>> allocation of page cache pages has been <ahem> underwhelming.
>>> (See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109416852113561&w=2
>>> and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109416852416997&w=2 )
>>> I wonder if this is because I just posted it to linux-mm or its not
>>> fleshed out enough yet to be interesting?
>>>
>>
>> It was very noncontroversial. Since it's apparently useful to someone
>> and generally low-impact it should probably be merged.
>>
>>
>
> Yeah, I couldn't see any reason to not go ahead with it, which is why I
> didn't say anything :)
>
>

Cool. I'll go ahead and finish it and make it something useful then.

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