From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <413DE9D3.6050904@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:03:15 -0500 From: Ray Bryant MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness References: <413CB661.6030303@sgi.com> <20040906162740.54a5d6c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20040907000304.GA8083@logos.cnet> <413D8FB2.1060705@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <413D8FB2.1060705@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, mbligh@aracnet.com List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Just a suggestion - I'd look at the thrashing control patch first. > I bet that's the cause. > > The token based thrashing control patch is also in 2.6.8.1-mm4, and that kernel doesn't behave nearly as badly as 2.5.9-rc1-mm3, so I don't think that is the culprit in that case. -- Best Regards, Ray ----------------------------------------------- Ray Bryant 512-453-9679 (work) 512-507-7807 (cell) raybry@sgi.com raybry@austin.rr.com The box said: "Requires Windows 98 or better", so I installed Linux. ----------------------------------------------- -- 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