Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265161AbUJLP3r (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:29:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265127AbUJLP3q (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:29:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58280 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265161AbUJLP1b (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:27:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:27:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Christoph Lameter cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, , Subject: Re: NUMA: Patch for node based swapping In-Reply-To: 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: 801 Lines: 19 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The minimum may be controlled through /proc/sys/vm/node_swap. > By default node_swap is set to 100 which means that kswapd will be run on > a zone if less than 10% are available after allocation. That sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea for eg. AMD64 systems, which have a very low numa factor. -- "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/