Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:36:43 +1100 | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > > Hi Con, > If this indeed makes VM behaviour better, why not just merge the > calculation > with the swap_tendancy calculation and leave vm_swappiness there as a > tunable?
Because the whole point of it is to remove the tunable and make it auto tuning. We could do away with the vm_swappiness variable altogether too (which I would actually prefer to do) but this leaves it intact to see what the vm is doing.
Con
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