Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:22:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Thinko in kswapd? |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > pull it all right back in again. It continues through the entire > > build with the cost seen in the time numbers. (the ac20.virgin run > > was worse by 30 secs than average, but that doesn't matter much) > > Using my reference interactive test (An application which renders 3D graphics > and generates fairly measurable VM traffic with AGP texture mapping)[1] the > graphical flow is noticably stalling where it didn't before. > > Throughput seems to be up but interactivity is bad.
If you set the amount that kswapd goes after to be a fraction of inactive_target and leave Stephens change in but ensure that a schedule happens between loops, IIRC interactive is pretty nice while swapping. (haven't tried that particular variant in a while)
-Mike
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