From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268130AbUIGRFE (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:05:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268223AbUIGRCD (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:02:03 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:5564 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268130AbUIGQ7X (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:59:23 -0400 Message-ID: <413DE9D3.6050904@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:03:15 -0500 From: Ray Bryant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Marcelo Tosatti , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, mbligh@aracnet.com Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness References: <413CB661.6030303@sgi.com> <20040906162740.54a5d6c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20040907000304.GA8083@logos.cnet> <413D8FB2.1060705@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <413D8FB2.1060705@cyberone.com.au> 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 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Just a suggestion - I'd look at the thrashing control patch first. > I bet that's the cause. > > The token based thrashing control patch is also in 2.6.8.1-mm4, and that kernel doesn't behave nearly as badly as 2.5.9-rc1-mm3, so I don't think that is the culprit in that case. -- Best Regards, Ray ----------------------------------------------- Ray Bryant 512-453-9679 (work) 512-507-7807 (cell) raybry@sgi.com raybry@austin.rr.com The box said: "Requires Windows 98 or better", so I installed Linux. -----------------------------------------------