Re: Autotune swappiness01

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

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R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday 26 of July 2004 03:09, Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
>>Con Kolivas writes:
>>
>>>Andrew Morton writes:
>>>
>>>>Seriously, we've seen placebo effects before...
>>>
>>>I am in full agreement there... It's easy to see that applications do not
>>>swap out overnight; but i'm having difficulty trying to find a way to
>>>demonstrate the other part. I guess timing the "linking the kernel with
>>>full debug" on a low memory box is measurable.
>>
>>I should have said - finding a swappiness that ensures not swapping out
>>applications with updatedb, then using that same swappiness value to do the
>>linking test.
> 
> 
> Please excuse me, but is that viable at all?  IMHO, it's just like trying to 
> tune a radio including volume with only one knob.  I don't say it won't work, 
> but the probability that it will is rather small, it seems ...

Well that's what we want. I cant remember other desktop operating 
systems setting a root only control between night and day, or between 
copying ISOs and running applications or...

Con

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