Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: Autotune swappiness01 | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:43:33 +1000 |
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Tim Connors writes:
> Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> said on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:17:16 +0900: >> >> Andrew Morton wrote: >> | Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> 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
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