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 21:47:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4104EF5F.9070405@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4104E863.6070102@kolivas.org>
Con Kolivas wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>> Con Kolivas wrote:
>>> 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.
No, you're right. My ideal operating system knows what the user
wants too ;)
Most of the time though, you are right. The quality/desirability of an
implementation will be inversely proportional to the number of knobs
sticking out of it (with bonus points for those that are meaningful to
2 people on the planet).
And yes, I think one knob should be enough for swapping behaviour too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-26 11:48 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
2004-07-26 11:17 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 11:47 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-26 14:52 Martin Knoblauch
2004-07-26 21:29 DaMouse
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