Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269224AbUIHXgj (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:36:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269221AbUIHXd7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:33:59 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:10921 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269212AbUIHXdb (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:33:31 -0400 Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness From: Alan Cox To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Diego Calleja , Rik van Riel , raybry@sgi.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, kernel@kolivas.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au In-Reply-To: <36100000.1094677832@flay> References: <5860000.1094664673@flay> <20040908215008.10a56e2b.diegocg@teleline.es> <36100000.1094677832@flay> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094682510.12371.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:28:42 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 595 Lines: 13 On Mer, 2004-09-08 at 22:10, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I really don't see any point in pushing the self-tuning of the kernel out > into userspace. What are you hoping to achieve? What if there is more than one right answer to "self-tune" policy. Also what if you want an application to tweak the tuning in ways that are different to general policy ? - 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/