Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:09:43 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Autotune swappiness01 |
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Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> wrote: > > Con Kolivas wrote: > | Andrew Morton writes: > > |> Yes, I think 60% is about right for a 512-768M box. Too high for the > |> smaller machines, too low for the larger ones. > | > | > | Sigh.. > | I have a 1Gb desktop machine that refuses to keep my applications in ram > | overnight if I have a swappiness higher than the default so I think lots > | of desktop users with more ram will be unhappy with higher settings. > > I have 1 GB and I had a setting of 51 (seemed to be perhaps gentoo > default or so) and I especially after a weekend (2 days off) it is > always the "monday-morning-swap-hell" where I have to wait 5min until he > swapped in the apps he swapped out during weekend. > > 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.
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