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

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:06:20PM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote:
> For what it is worth, here are the benchmark results for the kernel with 
> the patch I discussed before, along with the previous 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 results:
[...]
> Except for the swappiness = 20 case, things are a smallish bit better for
> the modified kernel than 2.6.9-rc1-mm3.  Clearly we haven't found the root 
> of this problem yet.
> Have you still been unable to duplicate this problem on a small i386 
> platform?

Please log periodic snapshots of /proc/vmstat during runs on kernel
versions before and after major behavioral shifts.


-- wli
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