Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:06:16 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:33:33PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> This doesn't match your first response. Anyway, this one is gets
>> scrapped. I guess if swappiness solves it, then so much the better.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:52:57PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> Huh?  Where do you see a discrepency?  I don't think I claimed that
> the test program performance changed.  The noticeable difference is in
> interactivity once the page cache fills.  IMHO, 30 seconds to do a
> file listing on /proc is extreme.

Oh, sorry, it was unclear to me that the test changed anything but
swappiness (i.e. I couldn't tell they included the patch etc.)


-- wli
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