From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: "R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:13:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4104E750.60400@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4104E4ED.7030901@kolivas.org>
Con Kolivas wrote:
> R. J. Wysocki wrote:
>
>> On Monday 26 of July 2004 12:29, Con Kolivas wrote:
>>
>>> I think one knob is one knob too many already.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you please tell me why do you think so?
>
>
> If you wanna discuss pedantics...
>
> In my ideal, nonsensical, impossible to obtain world we have an
> autoregulating operating system that doesn't need any knobs.
>
Some thinks are fundamental tradeoffs that can't be autotuned.
Latency vs throughput comes up in a lot of places, eg. timeslices.
Maximum throughput via effective use of swap, versus swapping as
a last resort may be another.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-26 11:13 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 [this message]
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
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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