From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:45:17 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: Might refill_inactive_zone () be too aggressive? Message-ID: <20040417194517.GQ743@holomorphy.com> References: <20040417060920.GC29393@flea> <20040417061847.GC743@holomorphy.com> <20040417175723.GA3235@flea> <20040417181042.GM743@holomorphy.com> <20040417182838.GA3856@flea> <20040417183325.GN743@holomorphy.com> <20040417184424.GA4066@flea> <20040417191955.GO743@holomorphy.com> <20040417192547.GA11065@flea> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040417192547.GA11065@flea> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marc Singer Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:19:55PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> That's something of a normative question about the heuristics, and I >> try to steer clear of those, though I'm not entirely sure that's how I >> would interpret it the tunings for your descriptive parts. On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > The more I think about it, the more I think that there is something > awry. Once distress reaches 50, swappiness is going to rule the > ability of the system to keep pages mapped. If swappiness is then 50 > or more, vmscan is going age and then purge every mapped page. There's not any a priori reason to believe this is wrong that I know of, though it looks like things do better for you when slightly rearranged. On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:19:55PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> In the absence of "hard" numbers, you might still be able to use things >> like wall clock timings. Another thing that would help is to expose the >> thing to a variety of workloads/etc. For that, I guess I post to lkml. On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > Are you suggesting that I post to LKML to get some ideas about other > workloads? Well, yes, but I just did so myself. -- wli -- 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