From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265234AbUG0AxB (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:53:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266196AbUG0AxB (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:53:01 -0400 Received: from smtp1.cwidc.net ([154.33.63.111]:26879 "EHLO smtp1.cwidc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265234AbUG0Aw6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:52:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4105A761.9090905@tequila.co.jp> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:52:49 +0900 From: Clemens Schwaighofer Organization: TEQUILA\ Japan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040724 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: Andrew Morton , Joel Becker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01 References: <20040725173652.274dcac6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040726202946.GD26075@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20040726134258.37531648.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Con Kolivas wrote: | Andrew Morton writes: |> Yes, I think 60% is about right for a 512-768M box. Too high for the |> smaller machines, too low for the larger ones. | | | Sigh.. | I have a 1Gb desktop machine that refuses to keep my applications in ram | overnight if I have a swappiness higher than the default so I think lots | of desktop users with more ram will be unhappy with higher settings. I have 1 GB and I had a setting of 51 (seemed to be perhaps gentoo default or so) and I especially after a weekend (2 days off) it is always the "monday-morning-swap-hell" where I have to wait 5min until he swapped in the apps he swapped out during weekend. I changed that to 20 now, but I don't know if this will make things worse or better. |> More intelligent selection of the initial value is needed. | | Perhaps, but I really doubt desktop users running mainline would be | happy about it going significantly higher. no, but an already diskussed feature that would know, not to swap out much used apps (eg mozilla which is used all the time, or openoffice) during night or long idle times, if not _really_ needed. - -- Clemens Schwaighofer - IT Engineer & System Administration ========================================================== TEQUILA\Japan, 6-17-2 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8167, JAPAN Tel: +81-(0)3-3545-7703 Fax: +81-(0)3-3545-7343 http://www.tequila.co.jp ========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBadgjBz/yQjBxz8RAkj5AJ9527iKCfaJyWI4S8cDvKCIcyC7ZACgyqel txTVMqqVJUuargYPnX8Fvyw= =gmPf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----