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

Rik van Riel
2004-09-08T23:25:15Z

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> Oh, I see what you mean. I think we're much better off sticking the
> mechanism for autotuning stuff in the kernel -

Agreed. Autotuning like this appears to work best by having
a self adjusting algorithm, often negative feedback loops so
things get balanced out automagically.

Works way better than anything looking at indirect data and
then tweaking some magic knobs...

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