Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:42:26 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup |
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Con Kolivas wrote:
> 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.
Right. This just had me a bit confused. No worries.
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