From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:09:16 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Message-ID: <20040909030916.GR3106@holomorphy.com> References: <20040906162740.54a5d6c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20040907000304.GA8083@logos.cnet> <20040907212051.GC3492@logos.cnet> <413F1518.7050608@sgi.com> <20040908165412.GB4284@logos.cnet> <413F5EE7.6050705@sgi.com> <20040908193036.GH4284@logos.cnet> <413FC8AC.7030707@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <413FC8AC.7030707@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ray Bryant Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au List-ID: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:06:20PM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote: > For what it is worth, here are the benchmark results for the kernel with > the patch I discussed before, along with the previous 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 results: [...] > Except for the swappiness = 20 case, things are a smallish bit better for > the modified kernel than 2.6.9-rc1-mm3. Clearly we haven't found the root > of this problem yet. > Have you still been unable to duplicate this problem on a small i386 > platform? Please log periodic snapshots of /proc/vmstat during runs on kernel versions before and after major behavioral shifts. -- 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