Re: why swap at all?

[Con Kolivas]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:56, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 02:16, FabF wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 01:54, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Try this version instead which biases it downwards.
> >
> > I've been unhappy with this one.sw range : 19->60.
> > So I've been playing slightly with sw curve replacing nerve centre with
>
> Are you unhappy with the numbers for swappiness it gives or the feel of it?
> It gives a range of 0-100 in meaningful ways. Your version gives swappiness
> > 100 at times (oops). If this version does not feel good, the last linear
> one is better and you simply dont have enough ram for it to feel good after
> updatedb.

Oh and I forgot to say, if that's the case then you should try Nick's patches 
which are far more sophisticated than this.

Con
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