Re: Autotune swappiness01

[Con Kolivas]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> 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.

As I said... it was ideal, nonsensical, and impossible. Doesn't sound 
like you're arguing with me.

Con

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