Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:47:39 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: Autotune swappiness01 |
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:02:32PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > I am not trying to say anything bad about your work - I am trying to > caution Andrew that not everyone cares so much that they lose 200 megs of > pagecache. It doesn't affect everyone equally - I'm just trying to put the > voice of those of us who care more about responsiveness than throughput, > if I may borrow the argument from upthread.
I happen to be a person who rolls his eyes at everyone's mention of micro-optimized "feel". I've found that any system faster than 300MHz is pretty decent for normal desktop work (that is, moz + lots of terminals in gnome/kde). Yes, I'm a luddite, I used to wait 45 seconds for moz to start in the morning on the 300Mhz. I survived. In general, I can't notice the difference between 2.6.anything on my 1GHz. Maybe everyone else can, but I can't. HOWEVER, the swappiness of '60' puts my system into fits-and-starts mode. Not "It feels slower", but "It pauses for seconds at a time." So I chimed in on this. And yes, I'd give up oodles of pagecache to avoid fits and starts. But there's got to be a way to use the pagecache and not hang for seconds at a time.
Joel
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