Re: why swap at all?

[Con Kolivas]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:22, John Bradford wrote:
> Quote from Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > 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.

Con
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