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SubjectRe: Autotune swappiness01
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:43:01AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Low memory boxes and ones that are heavily laden with applications find
> that ends up making things slow down trying to keep all applications in
> physical ram.

Lowish memory boxes with plain desktop loads find that the default
of '60' is a terrible one (I'm speaking of 1GHz-ish machines with 256MB
(like mine) or 512MB (like a guy next to me)). Every person I know who
installs 2.6 complains about how it feels slow and choppy. I tell them
"The first thing I do after installing 2.6 is set swappiness to '20'."
Sure enough, they set swappiness to 20 and their box starts behaving
like a properly tuned one.
I don't know what workload the default of '60' is for, but for
the (128MB < x < 1GB) of RAM case, it sucks (and I've seen the same
behavior on a 300MHz 196MB box).

Joel

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