Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:21:25 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems |
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Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> wrote: > > I'd say that there is no statistically significant difference between > these sets of times. However, after I've run the test program, I run > the command "ls -l /proc" > > swappiness > 60 (default) 0 > ------------ -------- > elapsed time(s) 18 1 > 30 1 > 33 1
How on earth can it take half a minute to list /proc?
> This is the problem. Once RAM fills with IO buffers, the kernel's > tendency to evict mapped pages ruins interactive performance.
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