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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!

Hello!

> I believe swappiness == 100 was "I want max throughput, I don't care
> about latency going through roof", while swappiness == 0 was "I don't
> want you to swap too much, behave reasonably".
>
> As you don't know if user cares about latency or not, I don't see how
> you can autotune this.

Well I guess you either see merit in what my patch does based on what I said,
or you don't... so I guess you don't. That's fine; I just offered why I felt
this helped in my varied workloads more than a static value did.

Con

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