Re: Autotune swappiness01

[Nick Piggin]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> R. J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > On Monday 26 of July 2004 12:29, Con Kolivas wrote:

> > > I think one knob is one knob too many already.
> >
> >
> >
> > Can you please tell me why do you think so?
>
>
> If you wanna discuss pedantics...
>
> In my ideal, nonsensical, impossible to obtain world we have an 
> autoregulating operating system that doesn't need any knobs.

Some thinks are fundamental tradeoffs that can't be autotuned.

Latency vs throughput comes up in a lot of places, eg. timeslices.

Maximum throughput via effective use of swap, versus swapping as
a last resort may be another.
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