From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264770AbUGZBKS (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:10:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264774AbUGZBKS (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:10:18 -0400 Received: from mail022.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.100]:15814 "EHLO mail022.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264770AbUGZBKK (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:10:10 -0400 References: <20040725173652.274dcac6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040725174849.75f2ecf6.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Con Kolivas To: Con Kolivas Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:09:58 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_mimegpg-pc.kolivas.org-20693-1090804198-0001"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a MIME GnuPG-signed message. If you see this text, it means that your E-mail or Usenet software does not support MIME signed messages. --=_mimegpg-pc.kolivas.org-20693-1090804198-0001 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Con Kolivas writes: > Andrew Morton writes: >> Seriously, we've seen placebo effects before... > > I am in full agreement there... It's easy to see that applications do not > swap out overnight; but i'm having difficulty trying to find a way to > demonstrate the other part. I guess timing the "linking the kernel with full > debug" on a low memory box is measurable. I should have said - finding a swappiness that ensures not swapping out applications with updatedb, then using that same swappiness value to do the linking test. Con --=_mimegpg-pc.kolivas.org-20693-1090804198-0001 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBBFnmZUg7+tp6mRURAiBrAJ9RC4hNX73ysfVmeuOgfQfF6NGt6gCeMBG6 VuFip1C3OtUcc3s8XP9VGn4= =lVkL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_mimegpg-pc.kolivas.org-20693-1090804198-0001--