From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:23:32 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Message-ID: <20040909172332.GZ3106@holomorphy.com> References: <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> <20040909030916.GR3106@holomorphy.com> <414065A8.20508@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414065A8.20508@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: William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Please log periodic snapshots of /proc/vmstat during runs on kernel >> versions before and after major behavioral shifts. On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:16:08AM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote: > Attached is the output you requested for two kernel versions: 2.6.8.1-mm4 > and 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 + the nrmap_patch (that patch didn't make much difference > so this should be good enough for comparison purposes, and it was the > kernel I had built.) > Because there are so many parameters in /proc/vmstat, I had to split the > output up (more or less arbitarily) into three files to get something you > could actually look at with an editor. Even then it requires 100 columns > or so. This will do fine. I'll examine these for anomalous maintenance of statistics and/or operational variables used to drive page replacement. Thanks. -- 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