From: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>
To: "R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:55:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Bp9hI-0006Fk-00@w-gerrit2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:54:01 +0200. <200407261254.01186.rjwysocki@sisk.pl>
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:54:01 +0200, "R. J. Wysocki" wrote:
> On Monday 26 of July 2004 12:29, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Perhaps we need a bit more sophisticated swap algorithm than other OSes
> > > do. For example, couldn't we add an additional parameter to control the
> > > swapping "behavior", apart from the swappiness? Something like adding
> > > the second knob in my radio example? Just thinking,
> >
> > I think one knob is one knob too many already.
>
> Can you please tell me why do you think so?
The more knobs there are, the higher the chances that most of them
are incorrectly set, no matter the workload.
gerrit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-26 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-26 0:25 [PATCH][2.6.8-rc1-mm1] " Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 0:43 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 1:01 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 1:09 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 8:52 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 9:31 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 10:34 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 10:29 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 10:54 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 11:03 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 11:13 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 11:17 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-26 11:47 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 13:53 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 18:45 ` Adam Kropelin
2004-07-26 18:53 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-26 17:55 ` Gerrit Huizenga [this message]
2004-07-26 20:29 ` Joel Becker
2004-07-26 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 22:58 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-27 0:52 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-27 1:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-27 1:17 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-27 2:03 ` Tim Connors
2004-07-27 2:43 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-27 3:02 ` Tim Connors
2004-07-27 3:43 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-27 3:47 ` Joel Becker
2004-07-27 15:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-27 3:41 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-26 14:52 Martin Knoblauch
2004-07-26 21:29 DaMouse
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