Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267520AbUIGKqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:46:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267558AbUIGKqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:46:54 -0400 Received: from mail-13.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.45]:30883 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267520AbUIGKqm (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:46:42 -0400 Message-ID: <413D8FB2.1060705@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:38:42 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Debian/1.7.2-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti CC: Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , raybry@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, mbligh@aracnet.com Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness References: <413CB661.6030303@sgi.com> <20040906162740.54a5d6c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20040907000304.GA8083@logos.cnet> In-Reply-To: <20040907000304.GA8083@logos.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 611 Lines: 22 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >Hi kernel fellows, > >I volunteer. I'll try something tomorrow to compare swappiness of older kernels like >2.6.5 and 2.6.6, which were fine on SGI's Altix tests, up to current newer kernels >(on small memory boxes of course). > Hi Marcelo, Just a suggestion - I'd look at the thrashing control patch first. I bet that's the cause. - 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/