This patch will solve the problem. Please change the file manually. pico
is screwing the display.
Now the actual value of swapout_interval gets displayed in /proc.
Yet-another-mm-hacker,
Chirayu
--- sysctl.c.orig Tue Mar 17 15:42:32 1998
+++ sysctl.c Tue Mar 17 15:50:15 1998
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
{VM_SWAPCTL, "swapctl",
&swap_control, sizeof(swap_control_t), 0600, NULL,
&proc_dointvec},
{VM_SWAPOUT, "swapout_interval",
- &swapout_interval, sizeof(int), 0600, NULL,
&proc_dointvec_jiffies},
+ &swapout_interval, sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
{VM_FREEPG, "freepages",
&min_free_pages, 3*sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
{VM_BDFLUSH, "bdflush", &bdf_prm, 9*sizeof(int), 0600, NULL,
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > On 16 Mar 1998, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >
> > > It is impossible to finetune swapout_interval using
> > > /proc/sys/vm/swapout_interval because any value written to it is
> > > multiplied by HZ, and the only usefull values are smaller than HZ. But
> > > proc interface for sysctl cannot cope with fractional values. The only
> > > chance to change the value of swapout_interval is to use the sysctl
> > > syscall, which uses the raw number.
>
> I've grep'ed all of the kernel for occurances of swapout_interval,
> and haven't found where the alledged multiplication should take
> place...
>
> But the fact remains that /proc/sys/vm/swapout_interval returns
> a false value... If you (or anyone for that matter) could give
> me a pointer, I'll try and fix the bug for you...
>
> Rik.
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