From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>,
Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 23:58:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010518235852.R8080@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105181941070.5531-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:44:39PM -0300
Hi,
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:44:39PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> This is the core of why we cannot (IMHO) have a discussion
> of whether a patch introducing new VM tunables can go in:
> there is no clear overview of exactly what would need to be
> tunable and how it would help.
It's worse than that. The workload on most typical systems is not
static. The VM *must* be able to cope with dynamic workloads. You
might twiddle all the knobs on your system to make your database run
faster, but end up in such a situation that the next time a mail flood
arrives for sendmail, the whole box locks up because the VM can no
longer adapt.
That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are
trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also
why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.)
Cheers,
Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-18 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105181403280.5531-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105181936240.583-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-05-18 18:19 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-18 18:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 18:58 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-18 20:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 20:24 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-18 20:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-18 22:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-18 22:58 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-05-19 2:12 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-19 2:32 ` Mike Castle
2001-05-19 6:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-19 4:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-19 17:13 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Mike Galbraith
2001-05-19 21:41 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-20 3:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 6:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-20 8:08 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105200546241.5531-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
2001-05-20 9:47 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105200703270.5531-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
2001-05-21 13:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-20 21:54 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-21 20:32 ` David Weinehall
2001-05-23 15:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-23 17:24 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-25 8:39 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-23 17:51 ` Scott Anderson
2001-05-25 8:10 ` David Weinehall
2001-05-25 18:39 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-04 19:22 ` RPM Installation - Compilation errors jalaja devi
2001-05-24 8:48 ` [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 Mike Galbraith
2001-05-24 9:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-24 10:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-24 11:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-24 14:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 15:32 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-20 17:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 13:44 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-05-20 17:58 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-20 19:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-20 21:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-21 3:54 ` Mike Galbraith
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