Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | | Subject | Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness | | Date | Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:34:20 +1000 |
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Andrew Morton writes:
> Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote: >> >> > A scan of the change logs for swappiness related changes shows nothing that >> > might explain these changes. My question is: "Is this change in behavior >> > deliberate, or just a side effect of other changes that were made in the vm?" >> > and "What kind of swappiness behavior might I expect to find in future kernels?". >> >> 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. It would be much more useful to get > down and identify which patch actually caused the behavioural change.
I don't disagree. Is there anyone who has the time and is willing to do the regression testing? This is a general appeal to the mailing list.
Cheers, Con
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