Re: [PATCH] 0/2 swap token tuning

[Rik Van Riel]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Rik Van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Rik Van Riel wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > 
> > > What are the suggested  values to put into /proc/sys/vm/swap_token_timeout ?
> > > The docs are not at all clear about this (proc/filesystems.txt).
> > 
> > Beats me ;)
> > 
> > I tried a number of values in the original implementation, and
> > 300 seconds turned out to work fine...

Never mind my previous mail - after looking at kernel/sysctl.c
it turns out that the sysctl code compensates for the jiffies
vs. seconds difference.

Just the default in mm/thrash.c should be changed from "300"
to "(300 * HZ)"...

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