Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265207AbUJLPmA (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265795AbUJLPl7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:41:59 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:53709 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265207AbUJLPlv (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:41:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:39:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Rik van Riel cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: NUMA: Patch for node based swapping In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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: 669 Lines: 15 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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. Any other suggestions? - 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/