From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265201AbUGZLSU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:18:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265211AbUGZLSU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:18:20 -0400 Received: from mail017.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.168]:2234 "EHLO mail017.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265201AbUGZLSQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:18:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4104E863.6070102@kolivas.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:17:55 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin Cc: "R. J. Wysocki" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01 References: <200407261234.29565.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> <4104DD27.6050907@kolivas.org> <200407261254.01186.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> <4104E4ED.7030901@kolivas.org> <4104E750.60400@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4104E750.60400@yahoo.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig25BBA947EDCA35E856BD4DE5" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig25BBA947EDCA35E856BD4DE5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nick Piggin wrote: > 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. As I said... it was ideal, nonsensical, and impossible. Doesn't sound like you're arguing with me. Con --------------enig25BBA947EDCA35E856BD4DE5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBBOhmZUg7+tp6mRURArvpAJ93fi9xH2HwFnDpThs+WCen/l/egwCaAvw8 us4t2Vk2z7LFf/qd5YlH2Ck= =Z5of -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig25BBA947EDCA35E856BD4DE5--