From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness From: Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <36100000.1094677832@flay> References: <5860000.1094664673@flay> <20040908215008.10a56e2b.diegocg@teleline.es> <36100000.1094677832@flay> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094682510.12371.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:28:42 +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Diego Calleja , Rik van Riel , raybry@sgi.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, kernel@kolivas.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au List-ID: On Mer, 2004-09-08 at 22:10, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I really don't see any point in pushing the self-tuning of the kernel out > into userspace. What are you hoping to achieve? What if there is more than one right answer to "self-tune" policy. Also what if you want an application to tweak the tuning in ways that are different to general policy ? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org