Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:40:37 +1100 |
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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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