Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: why swap at all? | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:22:14 +1000 |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:22, John Bradford wrote: > Quote from Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>: > > Does this explain in coarse examples to the desktop users why ideal > > systems shouldn't be swap disabled or swappiness=0 ? > > Yes, except in the case where you are processing a small, (relative to > physical RAM), dataset, and not even touching all physical RAM. > > (I admit, this isn't really typical desktop usage, though).
Well there is no doubt that there are some unique scenarios where an algorithmic setting will not be as good as a single static setting; and that's why I put in the option of disabling the auto swappiness. I believe our proc settings in the kernel should not need to be adjusted for the majority of cases, though.
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