From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265900AbUGZPMb (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:12:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265920AbUGZPMa (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:12:30 -0400 Received: from web13901.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.175.27]:33909 "HELO web13901.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265691AbUGZOwd (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:52:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20040726145232.10219.qmail@web13901.mail.yahoo.com> X-RocketYMMF: knobi.rm Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:52:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: knobi@knobisoft.de Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >On Monday 26 of July 2004 13:47, Nick Piggin wrote: >> Con Kolivas wrote: > >> No, you're right. My ideal operating system knows what the user >> wants too ;) > >Well, what I hate about various computer programs is that they seem to assume >to know what I (the USER) want and they don't let me do anything else that >they "know" what I should/would do. ;-) In Cons' ideal world the OS/program knows what you want, does the right thing, keeps you from mesiing stuff up -and you love it :-) But we all agreed do far - things are not ideal, so some knowbs are needed. Latency is one area, VM another. Martin ===== ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de