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From: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:15:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <415C3F44.2080206@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415A0378.9030007@cyberone.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>
>> Thanks Ray. From looking over your old results, it appears that 
>> -kswapdfix
>> probably has the nicest swappiness ramp, which is probably to be 
>> expected,
>> as the problem that is being fixed did exist in all other kernels you 
>> tested,
>> but the later ones just had other aggrivating changes.
>>
>> The swappiness=60 weirdness might just be some obscure interaction 
>> with the
>> workload. If that is the case, it is probably not too important, 
>> however it
>> could be due to a possible oversight in my patch....
>>
> 
> Here is a patch on top of the last one - if you can give it a test
> some time, that would be great.
> 
> Thanks
> Nick
> 
> 

Hi Nick,

Here are the results for the kswapd2 patch, along with the previous version 
and the original 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 test.  It pretty much looks like a wash between
the kswapd and kswapd2 patches.

Kernel Version 2.6.9-rc1-mm3:
         Total I/O   Avg Swap   min    max     pg cache    min    max
        ----------- --------- ------- ------  --------- ------- -------
    0   274.80 MB/s  10511 MB (  5644, 14492)  13293 MB (  8596, 17156)
   20   267.02 MB/s  12624 MB (  5578, 16287)  15298 MB (  8468, 18889)
   40   267.66 MB/s  13541 MB (  6619, 17461)  16199 MB (  9393, 20044)
   60   233.73 MB/s  18094 MB ( 16550, 19676)  20629 MB ( 19103, 22192)
   80   213.64 MB/s  20950 MB ( 15844, 22977)  23450 MB ( 18496, 25440)
  100   164.58 MB/s  26004 MB ( 26004, 26004)  28410 MB ( 28327, 28455)


Kernel Version 2.6.9-rc1-mm3-kdb-kswapdfix:
         Total I/O   Avg Swap   min    max     pg cache    min    max
        ----------- --------- ------- ------  --------- ------- -------
    0   279.97 MB/s     89 MB (    12,   265)   3062 MB (  2947,  3267)
   20   283.55 MB/s    161 MB (    15,   372)   3190 MB (  3011,  3427)
   40   282.32 MB/s    204 MB (     6,   407)   3187 MB (  2995,  3331)
   60   279.42 MB/s     72 MB (    15,   171)   3091 MB (  3027,  3155)
   80   283.34 MB/s    920 MB (   144,  3028)   3904 MB (  3106,  5957)
  100   160.55 MB/s  26008 MB ( 26007, 26008)  28473 MB ( 28455, 28487)

Kernel Version 2.6.9-rc1-mm3-kdb-kswapdfix2:
         Total I/O   Avg Swap   min    max     pg cache    min    max
        ----------- --------- ------- ------  --------- ------- -------
    0   282.71 MB/s    247 MB (     8,   691)   3248 MB (  2995,  3636)
   20   281.96 MB/s    127 MB (     3,   300)   3097 MB (  2931,  3283)
   40   282.24 MB/s    252 MB (    16,   417)   3270 MB (  3059,  3475)
   60   281.27 MB/s    404 MB (   106,  1070)   3414 MB (  3139,  4068)
   80   281.30 MB/s    494 MB (   204,   662)   3485 MB (  3187,  3635)
  100   160.35 MB/s  26003 MB ( 26003, 26003)  28477 MB ( 28407, 28519)

-- 
Best Regards,
Ray
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                   Ray Bryant
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-30 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-06 19:11 Ray Bryant
2004-09-06 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 21:22   ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-06 21:36     ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 22:37     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 23:51       ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-07  0:31         ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-06 22:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 23:09 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-06 23:27   ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 23:34     ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-07  0:03       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-07  1:34         ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-07 10:38         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-07 10:56           ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-08 16:45             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-09  1:12               ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-07 17:03           ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-07 21:20         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08  2:18           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 14:20           ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 16:54             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 19:35               ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 19:30                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-09  3:06                   ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09  2:14                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-09 14:21                       ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09  3:09                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 14:16                       ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09 17:23                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-28  1:54                       ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-28  3:36                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-29  0:36                           ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-29  4:23                             ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-30 17:15                             ` Ray Bryant [this message]
2004-09-08 17:31             ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 18:04               ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-08 19:50                 ` Diego Calleja
2004-09-08 21:10                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 21:55                     ` Diego Calleja
2004-09-08 22:20                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 23:22                         ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-08 22:28                     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-08 23:42                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 19:54               ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 15:19           ` Ray Bryant

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