Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | | Subject | Re: why swap at all? | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 00:27:57 +1000 |
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 00:18, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:38:41 +0200, FabF said: > >>>Yes but: your wm is so often used/activated it will not get swaped > >>> out. But if your mouse passes over mozilla and tries to focus it, then > >>> you will feel the pain of a swapped-out x program. > >> > >>Exactly ! > >>Does autoregulated VM swap. patch could help here ? > > > > Con's auto-adjusting swappiness patch did in fact help that quite a bit, > > especially for the case of heavy file I/O causing process images to be > > swapped out. I need to do some comparisons of that to Nick's MM work... > > I haven't had a chance to try Con's stuff, the Nick patch is working > VERY well for me, small memory and slow system, lots of memory pressure. > Hopefully you can report a comparison.
Well note there are two revisions available now. The original linear design is here: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc2/patch-2.6.7-rc2-am11
and there is an exponential curve bias in this one which will probably deprecate the last one: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc2/patch-2.6.7-rc2-as
I am keen to get more feedback; apart from what I get off list there has been very little in the way of reports.
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