Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vm - swap prefetch v14 | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:42:06 +1000 |
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 04:01 am, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Con, > > your patch still contains a serious BUG :-) > > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 14:57, Con Kolivas wrote: > > -The tunable to determine the amount of data retrieved per prefetch was > > added /proc/sys/vm/swap_prefetch > > is used to decide how many groups of 128kb to prefetch per 1 second > > interval and is set to 2 by default. It can be disabled by setting it to > > 0 > > swap_prefetch is not documented at Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt > > This simple text would suffice I think. Maybe comment about disabling it > for laptop usage.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add the Documentation entry and you reminded me to do something specific with laptop mode which I have for v15 I'm about to announce.
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