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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup
Hi!

> > > It seems that you don't need si_swapinfo here, do you? i.freeram,
> > > i.bufferram, and i.totalram all come from meminfo, as far as I can
> > > see? Maybe I'm missing a bit ...
> >
> > Well I did do it a while ago and it seems I got carried away adding and
> > subtracting info indeed. :-) Here's a simpler patch that does the same
> > thing.
>
> The off-list enthusiasm has been rather strong so here is a patch done the
> right way (tm). There is no need for the check of totalram being zero (the
> original version of this patch modified the swappiness every tick which was
> wasteful and had a divide by zero on init). Adjusting vm_swappiness only when
> there is pressure to swap means totalram shouldn't be ever be zero. The
> sysctl is made read only since writing to it would be ignored now.

I believe swappiness == 100 was "I want max throughput, I don't care
about latency going through roof", while swappiness == 0 was "I don't
want you to swap too much, behave reasonably".

As you don't know if user cares about latency or not, I don't see how
you can autotune this.

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