Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ck] Re: Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation | From | Mikhail Ramendik <> | Date | Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:14:11 +0400 |
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Hello,
Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Umm I think we're agreeing, no? I'm trying to leave the swappiness knob > > in for those who (think?) they know what they're doing. Somehow it needs > > to be turned to "manual" again. > No. Fold your all "autoswappiness" stuff directly into the > reclaim_mapped calculation that was previously keyed off swappiness. > Don't have it modify vm_swappiness at all: work directly on > reclaim_mapped. > > Then, you should be able to retain the user's vm_swappiness input > into the system as well. If you can't figure out a good place to > put this in, don't worry about it to start with.
I, as a user, would be far less happy without the ability to set it to "the old way". Of course "the old" vs "the new" may become a kernel config option, but why is a recompile better than a sysctl? Out of principle?
Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
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