Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:13:20 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Autotune swappiness01 |
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Con Kolivas wrote: > R. J. Wysocki wrote: > >> On Monday 26 of July 2004 12:29, Con Kolivas wrote: >>
>>> I think one knob is one knob too many already. >> >> >> >> Can you please tell me why do you think so? > > > If you wanna discuss pedantics... > > In my ideal, nonsensical, impossible to obtain world we have an > autoregulating operating system that doesn't need any knobs. >
Some thinks are fundamental tradeoffs that can't be autotuned.
Latency vs throughput comes up in a lot of places, eg. timeslices.
Maximum throughput via effective use of swap, versus swapping as a last resort may be another. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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