From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266224AbUG0CqV (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:46:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266227AbUG0CqV (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:46:21 -0400 Received: from mail020.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.131]:989 "EHLO mail020.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266224AbUG0Cp5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:45:57 -0400 References: <20040725173652.274dcac6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040726202946.GD26075@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20040726134258.37531648.akpm@osdl.org> <4105A761.9090905@tequila.co.jp> <20040726180943.4c871e4f.akpm@osdl.org> <4105AD1C.2050507@tequila.co.jp> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Con Kolivas To: Tim Connors Cc: Clemens Schwaighofer , Andrew Morton , Joel.Becker@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Autotune swappiness01 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:43:33 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tim Connors writes: > Clemens Schwaighofer said on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:17:16 +0900: >> >> Andrew Morton wrote: >> | Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: >> >> |> >> |>I changed that to 20 now, but I don't know if this will make things >> |>worse or better. >> | >> | It may appear to be better, but you now have 100, maybe 200 megabytes less >> | pagecache available across the entire working day. >> >> which might slow down overall working speed? or responsness of programs? > > Depends on what you do. Do you compile kernels regularly? In > particular, do you have to wait for them, or do you just let them sit > in the background, and come back to them when you rememeber, since > you've been busy doing real work for the past 5 hours? If you wait, > then I guess you want high swapiness. Well I'm tired of this discussion which comes up every month or so and I brought it up! Clearly my patch is not considered adequate so I promise never to bring it up again. Cheers, Con