Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness | From | Florin Andrei <> | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:31:53 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 16:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> > The change was not deliberate but there have been some other people report > > significant changes in the swappiness behaviour as well (see archives). It > > has usually been of the increased swapping variety lately. It has been > > annoying enough to the bleeding edge desktop users for a swag of out-of-tree > > hacks to start appearing (like mine). > > All of which is largely wasted effort.
>From a highly-theoretical, ivory-tower perspective, maybe; i am not the one to pass judgement. >From a realistic, "fix it 'cause it's performing worse than MSDOS without a disk cache" perspective, definitely not true.
I've found a situation where the vanilla kernel has a behaviour that makes no sense:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109237941331221&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109237959719868&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109238126314192&w=2
A patch by Con Kolivas fixed it:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109410526607990&w=2
I cannot offer more details, i have no time for experiments, i just need a system that works. The vanilla kernel does not.
-- Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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