Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264965AbUFCX6C (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:58:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264928AbUFCX6C (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:58:02 -0400 Received: from mail021.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.132]:35986 "EHLO mail021.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264925AbUFCX4c (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:56:32 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: FabF Subject: Re: why swap at all? Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:56:17 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200406030954.25222.kernel@kolivas.org> <1086279414.2295.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1086279414.2295.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406040956.17808.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 18 On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 02:16, FabF wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 01:54, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Try this version instead which biases it downwards. > I've been unhappy with this one.sw range : 19->60. > So I've been playing slightly with sw curve replacing nerve centre with Are you unhappy with the numbers for swappiness it gives or the feel of it? It gives a range of 0-100 in meaningful ways. Your version gives swappiness > 100 at times (oops). If this version does not feel good, the last linear one is better and you simply dont have enough ram for it to feel good after updatedb. Con - 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/