Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 18:41:00 EST


On Mer, 2004-09-08 at 22:10, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> I really don't see any point in pushing the self-tuning of the kernel out
> into userspace. What are you hoping to achieve?

What if there is more than one right answer to "self-tune" policy. Also
what if you want an application to tweak the tuning in ways that are
different to general policy ?

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