Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264113AbUDRERw (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:17:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264118AbUDRERw (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:17:52 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:55949 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264113AbUDRERv (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:17:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:17:48 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Nick Piggin Cc: Marc Singer , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems Message-ID: <20040418041748.GW743@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Nick Piggin , Marc Singer , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040417193855.GP743@holomorphy.com> <20040417212958.GA8722@flea> <20040417162125.3296430a.akpm@osdl.org> <20040417233037.GA15576@flea> <20040417165151.24b1fed5.akpm@osdl.org> <20040418002343.GA16025@flea> <4081F809.4030606@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4081F809.4030606@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 20 On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:37:45PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > swappiness is pretty arbitrary and unfortunately it means > different things to machines with different sized memory. > Also, once you *have* gone past the reclaim_mapped threshold, > mapped pages aren't really given any preference above > unmapped pages. > I have a small patchset which splits the active list roughly > into mapped and unmapped pages. It might hopefully solve your > problem. Would you give it a try? It is pretty stable here. It would be interesting to see the results of this on Marc's system. It's a more comprehensive solution than tweaking numbers. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/