Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266449AbUIIRYU (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:24:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266460AbUIIRYT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:24:19 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:49585 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266449AbUIIRXq (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:23:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:23:32 -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: <20040909172332.GZ3106@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: <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> <20040909030916.GR3106@holomorphy.com> <414065A8.20508@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414065A8.20508@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: 1107 Lines: 26 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Please log periodic snapshots of /proc/vmstat during runs on kernel >> versions before and after major behavioral shifts. On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:16:08AM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote: > Attached is the output you requested for two kernel versions: 2.6.8.1-mm4 > and 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 + the nrmap_patch (that patch didn't make much difference > so this should be good enough for comparison purposes, and it was the > kernel I had built.) > Because there are so many parameters in /proc/vmstat, I had to split the > output up (more or less arbitarily) into three files to get something you > could actually look at with an editor. Even then it requires 100 columns > or so. This will do fine. I'll examine these for anomalous maintenance of statistics and/or operational variables used to drive page replacement. Thanks. -- 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/