Re: Autotune swappiness01

[Con Kolivas]

R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday 26 of July 2004 03:09, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> > Con Kolivas writes:
> >
> > > Andrew Morton writes:
> > >
> > > > Seriously, we've seen placebo effects before...
> > >
> > > I am in full agreement there... It's easy to see that applications do not
> > > swap out overnight; but i'm having difficulty trying to find a way to
> > > demonstrate the other part. I guess timing the "linking the kernel with
> > > full debug" on a low memory box is measurable.
> >
> > I should have said - finding a swappiness that ensures not swapping out
> > applications with updatedb, then using that same swappiness value to do the
> > linking test.
>
>
> Please excuse me, but is that viable at all?  IMHO, it's just like trying to 
> tune a radio including volume with only one knob.  I don't say it won't work, 
> but the probability that it will is rather small, it seems ...

Well that's what we want. I cant remember other desktop operating 
systems setting a root only control between night and day, or between 
copying ISOs and running applications or...

Con

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