Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:19:59 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems |
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Marc Singer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:41:12PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:37:45PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: >>> >>> >>>>swappiness is pretty arbitrary and unfortunately it means >>>>different things to machines with different sized memory. >>>>Also, once you *have* gone past the reclaim_mapped threshold, >>>>mapped pages aren't really given any preference above >>>>unmapped pages. >>>>I have a small patchset which splits the active list roughly >>>>into mapped and unmapped pages. It might hopefully solve your >>>>problem. Would you give it a try? It is pretty stable here. >>> >>> >>>It would be interesting to see the results of this on Marc's system. >>>It's a more comprehensive solution than tweaking numbers. >>> >> >>Well, here is the current patch against 2.6.5-mm6. -mm is >>different enough from -linus now that it is not 100% trivial >>to patch (mainly the rmap and hugepages work). > > > Will this work against 2.6.5 without -mm6? >
Unfortunately it won't patch easily. If this is a big problem for you I could make you up a 2.6.5 version.
> As an aside, I've been using SVN to manage my kernel sources. While > I'd be thrilled to make it work, it simply doesn't seem to have the > heavy lifting capability to handle the kernel work. I know the > rudiments of using BK. What I'd like is some sort of HOWTO with > example of common tasks for kernel development. Know of any? >
Well I don't do a great deal of coding or merging, but I use Andrew Morton's patch scripts which make things very easy for me.
Regarding bitkeeper, I have never tried it but there is some help in Documentation/BK-usage/ which might be of use to you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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