From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932167AbVJRWGg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:06:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932168AbVJRWGg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:06:36 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:3589 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932167AbVJRWGf (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:06:35 -0400 Message-ID: <43557201.1070902@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:06:57 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derbey Nadia , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] - AKT project References: <43535245.9070807@bull.net> In-Reply-To: <43535245.9070807@bull.net> 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 Derbey Nadia wrote: > I'm announcing last version of the libtune API, that has been developped > to unify the way developers have to access Linux kernel tunables, system > information, resource consumptions. > > User documentation can be found at http://akt.sf.net/doc/aktapi.doc.01.html > > Design documentation can be found at > http://akt.sf.net/doc/aktapi.design.07.html > > The sources can be downloaded from > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136028 > > Next step of the project will consist in making the kernel able to tune > the resources as it sees appropriate. The reason for having tunables is so the admin can get the behaviour desired. Since the kernel can't really know which behaviour to optimize this would wind up being the kernel tuning itself to your (someone's) idea of better. That may be great for some newbie, but honestly the default values put in by the developers are satisfactory in most cases. I hope "as it sees appropriate" isn't really what you mean... -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me