Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269243AbUIIDJg (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:09:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269247AbUIIDJg (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:09:36 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:21677 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269243AbUIIDJf (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:09:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:09:16 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Ray Bryant Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Message-ID: <20040909030916.GR3106@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Ray Bryant , Marcelo Tosatti , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au References: <20040906162740.54a5d6c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20040907000304.GA8083@logos.cnet> <20040907212051.GC3492@logos.cnet> <413F1518.7050608@sgi.com> <20040908165412.GB4284@logos.cnet> <413F5EE7.6050705@sgi.com> <20040908193036.GH4284@logos.cnet> <413FC8AC.7030707@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <413FC8AC.7030707@sgi.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 20 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:06:20PM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote: > For what it is worth, here are the benchmark results for the kernel with > the patch I discussed before, along with the previous 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 results: [...] > Except for the swappiness = 20 case, things are a smallish bit better for > the modified kernel than 2.6.9-rc1-mm3. Clearly we haven't found the root > of this problem yet. > Have you still been unable to duplicate this problem on a small i386 > platform? Please log periodic snapshots of /proc/vmstat during runs on kernel versions before and after major behavioral shifts. -- wli - 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/