Re: Autotune swappiness01

[Con Kolivas]

Tim Connors writes:

> Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:17:16 +0900:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > | Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > |>
> > |>I changed that to 20 now, but I don't know if this will make things
> > |>worse or better.
> > |
> > | It may appear to be better, but you now have 100, maybe 200 megabytes less
> > | pagecache available across the entire working day.
> >
> > which might slow down overall working speed? or responsness of programs?
>
> Depends on what you do. Do you compile kernels regularly? In
> particular, do you have to wait for them, or do you just let them sit
> in the background, and come back to them when you rememeber, since
> you've been busy doing real work for the past 5 hours? If you wait,
> then I guess you want high swapiness.

Well I'm tired of this discussion which comes up every month or so and I 
brought it up! Clearly my patch is not considered adequate so I promise 
never to bring it up again.

Cheers,
Con

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