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To: Martin Olsson <mnemo@minimum.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why swap at all? (what the user feels) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:38:54 +0200."
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:38:54 +0200, Martin Olsson <mnemo@minimum.se>  said:

> Maybe we could just have a "Allow file system cache to swap out 
> applications checkbox somewhere"?
> 
> Or, Am I missing something?

Isn't that what /proc/sys/vm/swappiness is for? (And yes, I know that it's not
a total solution to the whole range of conflicting requirements that we have -
I suspect that it's really difficult to make it work much better than it is
without adding a lot more history-tracking instrumentation).


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