Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:06:27 -0400 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation |
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Nick Piggin wrote: | Con Kolivas wrote: | |> Nick Piggin writes: |> Umm I think we're agreeing, no? I'm trying to leave the swappiness |> knob in for those who (think?) they know what they're doing. Somehow |> it needs to be turned to "manual" again. |> | | No. Fold your all "autoswappiness" stuff directly into the | reclaim_mapped calculation that was previously keyed off swappiness. | Don't have it modify vm_swappiness at all: work directly on | reclaim_mapped. | | Then, you should be able to retain the user's vm_swappiness input | into the system as well. If you can't figure out a good place to | put this in, don't worry about it to start with. |
Wasn't the point of this patch to allow the machine to tweak the swappiness knob itself according to what it thinks is best, unless the user tells it not to? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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