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From: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:52:17 +0000
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On Friday 31 October 2003 3:57 am, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Chris Vine wrote:
> > However, on a low end machine (200MHz Pentium MMX uniprocessor with only
> > 32MB of RAM and 70MB of swap) I get poor performance once extensive use
> > is made of the swap space.
>
> Could you try the patch Con Kolivas posted on the 25th ?
>
> Subject: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup

I will do that over the weekend and report back.

Chris.