Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269261AbUIHSEz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:04:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269267AbUIHSEz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:04:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:47336 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269261AbUIHSEx (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:04:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:04:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: "Martin J. Bligh" cc: Ray Bryant , Marcelo Tosatti , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , , , Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness In-Reply-To: <5860000.1094664673@flay> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 22 On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > For HPC, maybe. For a fileserver, it might be far too little. That's the > trouble ... it's all dependant on the workload. Personally, I'd prefer > to get rid of manual tweakables (which are a pain in the ass in the field > anyway), and try to have the kernel react to what the customer is doing. Agreed. Many of these things should be self-tunable pretty easily, too... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/