Messages in this thread | | | From | "R. J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Autotune swappiness01 | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:52:49 +0200 |
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On Monday 26 of July 2004 03:09, Con Kolivas wrote: > Con Kolivas writes: > > Andrew Morton writes: > >> Seriously, we've seen placebo effects before... > > > > I am in full agreement there... It's easy to see that applications do not > > swap out overnight; but i'm having difficulty trying to find a way to > > demonstrate the other part. I guess timing the "linking the kernel with > > full debug" on a low memory box is measurable. > > I should have said - finding a swappiness that ensures not swapping out > applications with updatedb, then using that same swappiness value to do the > linking test.
Please excuse me, but is that viable at all? IMHO, it's just like trying to tune a radio including volume with only one knob. I don't say it won't work, but the probability that it will is rather small, it seems ...
rjw
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